Frederic Chopin Quotes

Frederic Chopin — Polish Composer born on March 01, 1810, died on October 17, 1849

Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising... (wikipedia)

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

I shall create a new world for myself.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.