Chopin


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Cho·pin

 (shō′păn′, shō-păN′), Frédéric François 1810-1849.
Polish-born French composer noted for the emotional expressiveness of his works for solo piano, many of which adopt the rhythms of Polish folk music.

Cho·pin

 (shō′păn′), Kate O'Flaherty 1851-1904.
American writer whose works, such as The Awakening (1899), portray Creole life in Louisiana.
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Chopin

(ˈʃɒpæn; French ʃɔpɛ̃)
n
(Biography) Frédéric (François) (frederik). 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist active in France, who wrote chiefly for the piano: noted for his harmonic imagination and his lyrical and melancholy qualities
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chop•in

(ˈtʃɒp ɪn)

n.

Cho•pin

(ˈʃoʊ pæn; for 1 also Fr. ʃoʊˈpɛ̃)

n.
1. Frédéric François, 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist, in France after 1831.
2. Kate O'Flaherty, 1851–1904, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.chopin - the music of ChopinChopin - the music of Chopin; "he practiced Chopin day and night"
music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
2.Chopin - United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904)
3.Chopin - French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)
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The next day Hawver was found dead in his room, the violin at his neck, the bow upon the strings, his music open before him at Chopin's funeral march.
The little piano is dumb night after night, its candles unlighted, and there is no one to play Chopin to us now as the day dies, and the shadows stoop out of their corners to listen in vain.
They are engrossed by every one, by Chopin Trouillefou, by the cardinal, by Coppenole, by Quasimodo, by the devil!
What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay."
"What passion!" "What an artist!" "I have always said no one could play Chopin like Mademoiselle Reisz!" "That last prelude!
tell her, that with my whole heart I wish for her what she wished for herself on Thursday evening, while she was listening to Chopin's Ballade.
Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt's works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall paper, Chopin and Oolong.
The harsh intervals and shrill discords of barbaric music stirred him at times when Schubert's grace, and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and the mighty harmonies of Beethoven himself, fell unheeded on his ear.
She trifled away half an hour at the piano; and played, in that time, selections from the Songs of Mendelssohn, the Mazurkas of Chopin, the Operas of Verdi, and the Sonatas of Mozart -- all of whom had combined together on this occasion and produced one immortal work, entitled "Frank." She closed the piano and went up to her room, to dream away the hours luxuriously in visions of her married future.
Bellman's book is an interesting, albeit controversial, interpretation of Chopin's Op.
His pauses and rhythm bendings in the Mendelssohn could not imbue this piece with any weight or drama and in the essentially tight and constrained Chopin he let the tensions escape.