Frases de Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Data de nascimento: 22. Fevereiro 1810
Data de falecimento: 17. Outubro 1849
Outros nomes: Frédéric François Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin, também chamado Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin , foi um pianista polaco radicado na França e compositor para piano da era romântica. É amplamente conhecido como um dos maiores compositores para piano e um dos pianistas mais importantes da história. Sua técnica refinada e sua elaboração harmônica vêm sendo comparadas historicamente com as de outros grandes compositores, como Mozart e Beethoven, assim como sua duradoura influência na música até os dias de hoje. Wikipedia
Citações Frédéric Chopin
„A terra é sufocante… Jure que vá cortar-me, de modo que eu não seja enterrado vivo.“
"The Earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
Frederic Chopin, compositor e pianista polonês, antes de sua morte.
„Se eu fosse mais tolo do que sou, acreditaria ter chegado ao topo de minha carreira“
escrevendo ao pai, Nicholas Chopin, professor de francês e literatura no Liceu de Varsóvia.
„One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity… A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.“
As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils.
Fonte: Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils (1986) by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Roy Howat, Naomi Shohet, and Krysia Osostowicz, p. 16
„Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.“
Murmured by Chopin on his death-bed.
Fonte: The opera reader, Biancolli, 1953, p. 271
„How great a joy I feel in my heart. That a day so pleasant, so dear and glorious begins, a day that I greet with the wish. That long years may pass in happiness. In health and vigour, peacefully, successfully. May the gift of heaven fall richly upon you“
As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]
„I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.“
As quoted in Chopin.
Variant translation: I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Variante: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Fonte: Chopin's Letters
„Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.“
As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils.
Fonte: Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils (1986) by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Roy Howat, Naomi Shohet, and Krysia Osostowicz, p. 23
„You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat“
As quoted in his letter to Jan Bialoblocki, written in Zelazowa Wola and dated back to December 24th 1826[citation needed]
„I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection“
As quoted in Chopin's Letter.
Fonte: Chopin's Letter (1988) by Henryk Opieński,E. L. Voynich, p. 4
