Chopin in Rouen
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)Transcript
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We are going to discuss the short but interesting life of the famous 19th century composer, Frederic Chopin, a brilliant architect of Western piano artistry, who wrote, as many musicologists now admit some of the most beautiful pieces of what we call romantic music. How does this delicate tapestry of sound, born of Slavic nostalgia and the melancholy of exile find meaning in our own musical landscape? It would seem that for nearly two centuries, Chopin has continued to evoke a variety of emotions in the listener for one very simple reason.