Frédéric Chopin Date/Place of Birth:  1st March, 1810 at Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw, Poland. Personality: 

A handsome and courteous gentleman. With his pale and frail appearance, he was physically weak as the result of the tuberculosis, a lung disease. Besides that, he was reserved and very sensitive to people's reaction.

(잘생기고 예의바름, 창백한 모습, 결핵으로

인한 신체적 약함, 사람들의 반응에 민감함)

 

Piano-Playing Style: 

There are two important features of Chopin's piano-playing style: rubato and classical basis.

(루바토와 클래식 베이시스)

In term of rubato, Chopin played the main melody, usually the right-hand part, in a hesitant but very free manner. As a result, the melody tends to be slowed down a bit or accelerated.

In other word, rubato means a feature of performance in which strict time is 'robbed' from some notes in order to give others the time to be played slowly. This style of playing has enhanced the expression of the particular melody.

(쇼팽의 루바토는 멜로디 라인

(주로 오른손) 에서 쓰였습니다.

쇼팽이 진정으로 의도하는 루바토는

곡의 템포가 느려지는 루바토가 절대로

아닙니다. 메인 멜로디가 조금 느려

지거나 빨라지기는 하지만 그 변동

시간만큼을 다른 노트에서 뺏어오거나

주어서 결국 제박자를 맞추는 겁니다.)

Despite Chopin's supreme rubato and romantic style, classical basis was very important to Chopin. In this style, he would play in strict time with a menotrome on his piano and smoothly (legato).

(쇼팽의 루바토 기법에서 불구하고

그의 클래식 베이시스(템포의 정확함)

은 아주 엄격했습니다. 그래서 쇼팽의

루바토는 절대 템포가 느려지는

루바토는 아닙니다. 정해진 템포안에서

조심스레 쓰는게 정확한 쇼팽의 루바토

기법입니다.)

Physically, his delicate hands would play the melody singing and touching with very flexible wrists. He also used sustaining pedal skillfully to enhance the singing tone as well as invoke the dramatic sense.

(신체적으로 곱고 약했던 손가락과

아주 유연한 손목과 함께 그는

멜로디를 노래하듯 연주하였습니다.)

Though Chopin was a piano virtuoso, he disliked playing at public concert as he was very sensitive to the crowds. Indeed, he preferred to play in small salons frequented by the nobility.

(그가 대가였지는 했지만 그가 관중들에

대해서 민감했기 때문에 대중앞에서

연주하는 것을 꺼려했습니다.)

Music: 

Generally, Chopin's music was very influenced by his favourite composers, J.S.Bach and Mozart. This indicates that his works sound in tonality way. Chopin's music is very highly imaginative and pianistic. His piano works are composed solely for the piano unlike the piano works by Beethoven or Clementi that could be transribed into other forms like orchestral work, chamber work etc.

(쇼팽의 음악은 그의 좋아하던 작곡가들

(바흐나 모차르트)의 영향을 크게 받았

습니다. 그 결과 그의 연주는 베토벤과

클레맨티와는 달랐습니다.(베토벤이나

클레맨티의 곡들은 오케스트라 곡으로도

전환이 가능했지만 쇼팽의 곡들은

오직 피아노만을 위한 것이였습니다.))

Chopin brought revolutionary to the piano music by taking inspiration from the singing human voice and transferred into most of his works.

(그의 음악이 사람의 목소리를 본따서

작곡했다는 것은 그 시대에는 새로운

작곡법이였습니다.)

Other than the singing and poetic music, it sometimes contained dissonances and thick harmonic structure that produced a rich, powerful sonority. Therefore, it was Chopin who made the piano popular: a singing instrument; an instrument of infinite color and poetry; a heroic instrument; an intimate instrument.

Besides that, Chopin's music also showed awesome virtuosity like Liszt's. That was why Schumann declared Chopin's music as "Guns buried in flowers."

(그의 음악은 또한 불협화음과 두터운

화성을 포괄하여 풍부한 소리를

가지고 있습니다. 또한 그의 음악은

리스트와 같은 기량도 가지고 있어서

슈만은 그의 음악을 "꽃에 묻혀있는 총"

이라 일컬었습니다.)

Chopin composed "absolute" music indicated that he only gave abstract titles to his music. Therefore, he was different from other composers like Schumannn who always gave descriptive titles to his music. Even though his four ballades were considered that each contained a story behind it. But, Chopin never wrote anything about that.

(그는 주로 음악에 추상적인 제목을

붙였습니다. 비록 그의 네 개의 발라드는

어떤 이야기에서 작곡됬지만 그는 그 이야기

들에 대해 아무것도 적지 않았습니다.)

Composing Habit: 

Chopin was not a fast composer like Mozart. However, while at the keyboard, his melodic ideas came fast and he would play and improvise continuously until he completed it as a piece. Then, when he started to compose, he did it with great care, thinking back the original ideas that had been played recently, fitting them into proper form, keeping on altering and refining the phrases until he satisfied with it.

(쇼팽은 모차르트처럼 빠른 작곡가가

아니였습니다. 하지만 그의 멜로디적

착상은 금방 생각이 났으며 그는

그 멜로디로 즉흥연주를 하여

완전한 곡을 만들었습니다. 그는 작곡을

할 때 깊은 생각하여 하였습니다.)

In conclusion, Chopin always improvised new piece on the piano before he composed it. That was why at that moment, his published works contained several versions.

(그는 항상 작곡을 하기 즉흥연주를

하였습니다. 쇼팽의 작품들에 여러개의

버전들이 있는 것이 바로 그 이유입니다.)

 

Chopin's Quote:  "The three most celebrated doctors on the island have seen me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat, the third listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second said I'm dying, the third said I'm going to die."
Chopin, disappointed with incompetent doctors in Majorca, 1839

"I don't like to play in public. The crowds frighten me, their breath stifles me, their stares petrify me, their strange faces throw me into confusion,"
Chopin, showing that he was very sensitive

("나는 관중 앞에서 연주하기가 싫다.

그들의 눈빛이 나를 경직시킨다.")

"Play Mozart's Requiem in memory of me,"
Chopin's last words, 1849

("내가 생각날 때 모차르트의 리퀴엠을  

연주하라." (쇼팽의 마지막 말))

"Liszt is playing my etudes and transporting me outside of my respectable thoughts. I should like to steal from him the way to play my own etudes."
Chopin, showing his envy of Liszt's strength and flamboyant style

("리스트는 나의 에튜드를 자기 스타일로

연주한다." (리스트의 힘과 현란함을

부러워하는 쇼팽))

"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand on the piano to attain the most beautiful quality of sound, to know how to play long notes and short notes, and with supple dexterity."
Chopin's definition of pianistic technique

("가장 아름다운 소리를 얻기 위해

피아니스트는 단지 확실한 손 자세법만

배우면 된다." (쇼팽의 피아니스트적인

테크닉 정의))

"In order to attain naturalness in performance, one needs to hear good singers and learns to sing."
Chopin's advice to his students

(이 인용문은 제가 개인적으로 모든

음악을 연주 할 때 항상 상기시킬 정도로

깊이 있는 말입니다.

"자연스레 연주하기 위해서는 연주자는

훌륭한 가수의 목소리를 듣고 노래하는

법을 배워야 한다." (그의 학생들을

위한 쇼팽의 충고))

 

Chopin's Death:  While Chopin lied on his bed, Solange, George Sand's daughter; Louise, his sister and Princess Marcelline, a friend of the family were at his bedside. Finally, Chopin died on the next morning of 17 October, 1849, at the age of 39.

 

 

 

 

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