Frédéric Chopin

1810 – 1849 · died at about 39^[1][2]

Music

Fun Facts About Frédéric Chopin

• Frédéric Chopin's heart was removed after his death, preserved in alcohol, and carried back to Poland by his sister Ludwika in 1850, as he had requested.^[1]
• For one of the most famous pianists in history, Chopin rarely played in public: after settling in Paris he gave only 30 public performances, preferring intimate salons.^[1]
• Chopin did not name the Minute Waltz or the Revolutionary Étude. Apart from his Funeral March, he never titled an instrumental work; those nicknames were invented by others.^[1]
• Sick in Mallorca in 1838, Chopin complained that the island's three most celebrated doctors had seen him: the first said he was dead, the second that he was dying, the third that he would die.^[1]
• Robert Schumann's very first published article on music was a review of a work by the young Chopin, which hailed him with the words "Hats off, gentlemen" and called him a genius.^[1]
• Chopin was giving public concerts by age seven, and as a boy he was invited to the Belweder Palace as a playmate to the son of the Russian ruler of Poland.^[1]
• Frédéric Chopin was alive at the same time as Napoleon Bonaparte — their lives overlapped for 11 years (1810–1821).^[1][2][3][4]
• Frédéric Chopin shares a birthday with Justin Bieber: both were born on March 1.^[1][2][5][6]

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".^[1]

Contemporaries

Hokusai

39 yr overlap

Jacob Grimm

39 yr overlap

Michael Faraday

39 yr overlap

Charles Babbage

39 yr overlap

Victor Hugo

39 yr overlap

Hans Christian Andersen

39 yr overlap

Abraham Lincoln

39 yr overlap

Charles Darwin

39 yr overlap

Edgar Allan Poe

39 yr overlap

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39 yr overlap

George Sand

39 yr overlap

Mary Shelley

39 yr overlap

Their World

Questions About Frédéric Chopin

When was Frédéric Chopin born?

Frédéric Chopin was born on March 1, 1810, and died on October 17, 1849.

How old was Frédéric Chopin at death?

Frédéric Chopin was born on March 1, 1810, and died on October 17, 1849, at age 39.

What was Frédéric Chopin known for?

Frédéric Chopin was known for: Romantic piano virtuoso. Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".

Who was alive at the same time as Frédéric Chopin?

Frédéric Chopin's closest contemporary was Hokusai. Their lives overlapped for 39 years.