Fryderyk Chopin, an innovative composer and brilliant pianist, did not write symphonies or operas, and did not leave a single overture or oratorio. He managed to vividly display his talent in piano music, enriching it with new musical images and genres, the expressive possibilities of the instrument, thus taking his place among the greatest masters of art.
short biography
Fryderyk-Franciszek was born on March 1, 1810 in the town of Zhelyazova Wola. The boy's father, Nikolai, was French, and Justin's mother was Polish. A few months after the birth of the boy, the family moved to Warsaw, where the head of the family got a job as a teacher in a lyceum.
Fryderyk grew up surrounded by music: his mother sang and played the piano, his father played the violin and flute. By the age of five, the boy confidently performed simple pieces, studying music under the guidance of his sister Ludvika.
At the age of seven, Wojciech Zhivny became his teacher, who instilled in his student a love for. February 1817 was marked by the first performance of the young virtuoso, which caused general delight. Soon the first works of the young talent were published.
Simultaneously with music studies, Chopin studies general education disciplines: foreign languages, history and literature. By the age of sixteen, Fryderyk completes his studies at the Lyceum. In addition to musical abilities, the boy manifests himself as a good actor and a capable cartoonist.
In 1826, Chopin entered the Higher School of Music, where, under the guidance of Jozef Elsner, he improved his composition. Created by Fryderyk, two concertos for piano and orchestra have forever entered the repertoire of the world's best performers. While studying, he meets his first love - Constance Gladkovskaya, to whom he dedicates two songs.
Far from home
In 1829, Chopin visited Vienna, where he gave several concerts, which received great success. The Vienna audience warmly received the young musician. Upon returning to his homeland, Fryderyk regularly gives concerts, among them - concerts, mazurkas, nocturnes. On November 2, 1830, the composer decides to leave Poland.
Hoping for last year's success, Chopin travels to Vienna again. However, this time fate was unfavorable: he did not manage to arrange a single performance, and publishers agreed to publish his works only for free.
Parisian period
In Poland, an uprising against the Russian autocracy begins. Having learned about him, the composer, who in his youth participated in the uprising of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, is going to return to his homeland, but his relatives were able to dissuade him. In the autumn of 1831 Chopin went to Paris. Impressed by the ongoing events, he wrote several preludes, a ballad, as well as the famous sketch, which the author gave the name "Revolutionary".
In Paris, Chopin became known primarily as a pianist. Publishers did not agree to publish his works for a fee, so the composer was forced to give music lessons for several hours a day. However, the talent was not forgotten, and in the salons of the Polish diaspora and the French aristocracy, the fame of the young musician grew and multiplied.
In 1835, Chopin met Maria Vodzinskaya. The composer was sure that he had found a woman with whom he would unite his life; however, Maria's parents opposed their daughter's marriage to the musician. In November of the same year, he fell seriously ill, and during his illness he wrote the famous funeral march.
In 1836, Chopin met George Sand, with whom he connected his life for many years. Despite the fact that the writer in her memoirs describes her self-sacrifice and concern for the composer, friends and students speak of her attitude towards her lover very unflatteringly.
Mature period of creativity
Chopin gives concerts less and less, devoting himself to creativity. Parisians admire the composer's talent: many dream of hearing him play, but taking lessons from him was an honor accessible to few.
However, a series of tragic events shocked the great master: the death of his father, a close friend of Matushinsky, a break with George Sand. All this undermined his health, and he almost stops writing.
After a trip to England, where Chopin made his last public appearance, the disease progresses, its outcome becomes clear both to those around him and to the musician himself. Until the last days of his life, he did not forget about George Sand, but she did not visit him and did not write a single line.
Chopin died on October 17, 1849 in the arms of his sister Ludwika. Some of his own compositions were performed at the composer's funeral, including the funeral march and Mozart's Requiem. He was buried in Paris, at the Pere Lachaise cemetery, and the composer's heart, according to his will, was transferred to Warsaw, where it is still kept in the Church of the Holy Cross.
There are few composers whose work is ranked among the greatest treasures of world art and at the same time is accessible to the widest circles of listeners and enjoys worldwide popularity. Even among these most fortunate composers, the brilliant Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin occupies an exceptional place in many respects. Other major composers of the past - Mozart, Beethoven, Glinka, Tchaikovsky - proved themselves in different genres of music, wrote works of a large scale - symphonies, operas. Chopin, on the other hand, is on a par with these geniuses, despite the fact that he composed almost exclusively for the piano, and mostly works of a small volume - miniatures. He, like no one else, was able to say a lot in a little, to express great content in forms modest in scale, and from the piano he extracted such a richness of colors that it seemed to replace an entire orchestra.
Fryderyk Chopin was born on February 22, 1810 near Warsaw in the town of Zhelyazova Wola. Chopin's mother was Polish, his father was French. The family lived on the estate of Count Skarbek, where his father served as a home teacher. Shortly after the birth of his son, Nikolai Chopin received a job as a home teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum, and the whole family moved to the capital. Little Fryderyk grew up surrounded by music. His father played the violin and flute, his mother played the piano and sang. The boy's musical talent manifested itself very early. Already at the age of five, Chopin confidently performed the pieces learned under the guidance of his elder sister Ludwika. Soon, the well-known Czech musician Wojciech Zhivny became his teacher, it was he who instilled in his student a love for the music of the classics, especially J. S. Bach. The first performance of the little pianist took place in Warsaw when he was seven years old. The concert was a success, and the whole of Warsaw soon recognized Chopin's name. At the same time, one of his first compositions, a polonaise for piano in G minor, was published. The boy's performing talent developed so rapidly that by the age of twelve, Chopin was not inferior to the best Polish pianists. Chopin was distinguished by physical fragility and refined aristocracy, self-esteem and self-control. He was restrained, ironic, impeccably educated and always admired by his contemporaries for his exquisite simplicity and nobility. Zhivny himself refused to study with the young virtuoso, saying that he could teach him nothing more.
The boy's musical studies did not come at the expense of his general education. Chopin was distinguished, despite his poor health, by his great industriousness. Already in childhood, Fryderyk was fluent in German and French, was interested in the history of Poland, and read a lot of fiction. He was good at drawing, especially caricatures. His mimic talent was so bright that he could have become a theater actor. He attended opera performances with great interest. The game of the famous violinist Niccolo Paganini made an indelible impression on the impressionable young man. However, the most profound impressions of Chopin's childhood and youth are connected with Polish folk music. Chopin listened to it with enthusiasm during country walks, in the estates of his comrades in the lyceum. These impressions became one of the most important foundations of his work. For the formation of Chopin as an artist, the entire social and cultural atmosphere of Warsaw in the 20s of the 19th century, an era when, after the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars, Poland was preparing to resume the struggle for independence, was of great importance.
In 1826, after graduating from the lyceum, Chopin entered the Warsaw High School of Music. Here, his classes were led by an experienced teacher and composer Józef Elsner. Among his notes, the characteristic given to the young musician was preserved: “Amazing abilities. musical genius. By this time, Chopin had already been recognized as the best pianist in Poland. Reached maturity and his talent as a composer. This is evidenced by two concertos for piano and orchestra, composed in 1829-1830. These concertos still sound in our time, and are favorite works of pianists of all countries.
At the end of the Higher Musical School (1829). Chopin - already an established artist - made a trip to Vienna, one of the largest musical centers of that time. His concerts were a huge success. After returning to Warsaw, it became obvious that the further development of his talent required the atmosphere of the largest European capitals and a long concert tour. Chopin could not make up his mind to take this step for a long time. He was tormented by severe forebodings. It seemed to him that he was leaving his homeland forever. Finally, in the autumn of 1830, Chopin left Warsaw. Friends gave him a parting silver goblet filled with Polish soil. Chopin was twenty years old. Happy youthful time, full of searches, hopes, successes, is over. Premonitions did not deceive Chopin. He left his home forever.
Remembering the good reception given to him in Vienna, Chopin decided to start his concerts there. But, despite all his efforts, he never managed to give an independent concert, and the publishers agreed to print his works only for free. Unexpectedly, alarming news came from the homeland. In Warsaw, an uprising against the Russian autocracy began, organized by Polish patriots. Chopin decided to cut short his concert tour and return to Poland, but his family and friends prevented him from doing so. With bitterness, the composer submitted and went to Paris. From that moment on, disturbing thoughts about the fate of the homeland and loved ones do not leave him. On the way, Chopin was overtaken by the news of the defeat of the uprising. A strong shock from this news served as an impetus for the creation of brilliant tragic works, primarily an etude in C minor (op. 10) - the so-called "revolutionary". The prelude in D minor, created at the same time, and then included in the book of preludes under No. 24, is also full of sublimely tragic pathos.
In the autumn of 1831, Chopin arrived in Paris, where he lived until the end of his life. But France did not become the composer's second home. Both in his affections and in his work, Chopin remains a Pole. The theme of love for the people, the motherland, so characteristic of romanticism, can be traced throughout all his works. Chopin is a romantic composer whose music was influenced by Polish musical culture and the creative work of the composers' predecessors. Various types of Polish rural and urban dances are reflected in incendiary mazurkas, solemn polonaises, brilliant, expressive waltzes, ingenious preludes and nocturnes - examples of musical lyrics.
Chopin's Mazurkas are dance pieces that combine the features of three old folk dances: these are Mazur, Kujawiak and Oberek, common in various regions of Poland. The mazurka was especially close and dear to the composer, since his youth was spent in Kuyavy and Mazovia, the birthplace of this dance. Such lyrical melodies include the mazurka in A minor (op. 68 No. 2). A sad, thoughtful melody smoothly turns into a perky village dance. And how much grandeur and jubilation is heard from the first notes of the polonaise in A major. After all, it is also based on the Polish national dance, which eventually received the French name "polonaise". Once upon a time, a polonaise was a festive ceremonial procession. In the old days, only warrior-knights participated in it. Having arisen among the people, the polonaise was finally formed in the circles of the Polish nobility and firmly entered the ballroom music. In the 19th century, the ball was opened, as a rule, with a polonaise. In the first pair was the host with the most respected guest. Chopin's waltzes are also among the works of a dance character. Among Chopin's seventeen waltzes, the waltz in C-sharp minor is very popular. Delicate and poetic at the beginning, it strikes with brilliance and virtuosity in the second theme, creating the impression of swirling movement, lightness, and flight.
But back to Paris. In that era, it was the center of all world culture and art. Many prominent writers, artists, pianists lived and worked there. It is enough to mention the names of Hugo, Heine, Berlioz, Liszt, Bellini. Chopin "conquered" Paris first as a pianist. He immediately struck the audience with his original and unusual performance, according to the memoirs of his contemporaries, it was surprisingly spiritual, poetic and elegant. Chopin the performer was inseparable from Chopin the composer. And spoiled Paris, which was difficult to surprise with virtuosity, bowed before the charm of Slavic melodies and incomparable poetry, which the sounds of his music exuded. According to Liszt, Chopin's music and playing evoked "a feeling of admiration, awe, timidity that seizes the heart near supernatural beings, near those whom you cannot unravel, understand, embrace." Speaking in concerts, Chopin mostly performed his own compositions: concertos for piano and orchestra, mazurkas, nocturnes, etudes, variations on a theme from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. It was about these variations that the outstanding German composer and critic Robert Schumann wrote: “Hats off, gentlemen, before you is a genius.” Chopin's music, like his concert performances, aroused universal admiration. Only music publishers were waiting. They did not refuse to publish Chopin, but, as in Vienna, free of charge. Therefore, the first editions did not bring income to Chopin. He was forced to give music lessons, sometimes 5-6 hours a day. This work provided him, but took a lot of energy. Along with the growth of Chopin's fame, the circle of his acquaintances is expanding. Among his friends are the pianist Liszt, the German poet Heine, the French composer Berlioz, the artist Delacroix. But no matter how interesting new friends were, for the sake of a guest from Poland, he put aside all his affairs, and could listen to stories about his homeland for hours. Meetings with Polish friends were especially dear to the composer, and because Chopin did not have his own family, his hope of marrying Maria Wodzinska, the daughter of one of the wealthy Polish nobles, did not come true. Maria's parents did not want to see their daughter married to a musician, albeit world-famous, but earning a living by his work. For many years, the famous French writer Aurora Dudevant, who appeared in print under the pseudonym George Sand, became his close friend. Over the years, Chopin gave concerts less and less, limiting himself to performing in a narrow circle of friends. He directed all his attention to creativity. His sonatas, scherzos, nocturnes, preludes, ballads appear. Along with bright, lyrical plays, more and more often works full of dramatic depth, and often tragedy, come out from under his pen. In this regard, it is impossible not to mention the four ballads of Chopin. They are a new and bold word in the history of musical art. The genre definition of the ballad entered the music from folk poetry and fiction. At the beginning of the 19th century, vocal ballads became widespread (for example, the famous ballad by F. Schubert "The Forest King"). Chopin was the first to introduce the ballad genre into instrumental music. The epic dramatic tone links Chopin's ballads with Schubert's and other vocal ballads. But Chopin's ballads are large pieces, with a wide, symphonic type of development of musical images. These works are rightly considered the direct predecessors of the genre of symphonic poems. And the beautiful lines of Boris Pasternak dedicated to Chopin come to mind, they subtly and accurately convey the image of majestic doom, so characteristic of Chopin's melodies:
Blow, another, passage -
In the balls milky halo
Chopin's funeral phrase
It floats like a sick eagle.
But, despite all the hardships, Chopin's life in Paris was, if not happy, then favorable for creativity. His talent has reached the pinnacle, the publication of works no longer encounters obstacles, it is considered a great honor to take lessons from him, and hearing him play is a rare happiness accessible only to a select few.
The last years of the composer's life were sad. His father died, a quarrel and a break with George Sand left him completely alone. Chopin never recovered from these brutal blows. Exacerbated lung disease, which Chopin suffered from a young age. The last two years the composer wrote almost nothing. To improve his financial situation, he travels to London at the invitation of English friends. Having gathered the last strength, the patient, he gives concerts and lessons there. An enthusiastic reception at first pleases him, inspires vigor. But the damp climate of England quickly took its toll. The last concert in London, which turned out to be the last in his life, Chopin gives in favor of Polish emigrants. On the advice of doctors, he hastily returns to Paris. The last work of the composer was the mazurka in F minor (op. 68 no. 4). At his request, his sister Ludwika arrived from Poland, in whose arms he died. The funeral of the composer was solemn. The best artists of Paris performed the Requiem of their beloved Mozart. Friends brought a goblet with native Polish land to his grave. Chopin was buried in Paris, and his heart, as he bequeathed, was sent to Warsaw, where it is still carefully kept in the Church of the Holy Cross.
During his short life, Chopin created over 200 works. With a few exceptions, these are all piano pieces, mostly of a small volume, and about half of them are written in dance form, which is associated with the peculiarities of folk music. For other instruments, he wrote only a few works: a trio for piano, violin and cello, a polonaise op. 3 and duet for piano and cello, a number of songs for voice. But within the limits of the piano work alone, Chopin reached the heights of artistic versatility, which other composers achieved by working on many types of instrumental music in different areas of musical art.
Chopin created his own piano style, which combines virtuosity and subtle, deep lyricism. He created new types, a new color of piano sound, a new pedal technique.
Chopin is the greatest master of melody. His melodic origins are different. His melodies combine the features of national Polish songwriting and the classics of Italian Belsant. The melodies have both melodiousness, and declamation, and complex instrumental development. And we recall the words of B. Pasternak that “the main means of expression, the language in which Chopin expressed everything he wanted to say, was his melody, the most genuine and powerful of all that we know.”
Chopin was highly appreciated and loved by all Russian composers - Glinka, Rimsky - Korsakov, Balakirev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov. It should be noted that the first complete edition of Chopin's works was printed in Russia (in 1861). In Russian musical, and especially concert life, Chopin's music, starting from the 30s of the 19th century, occupied a large place. A whole galaxy of pianists, led by A. Rubinstein and M. Balakirev, became famous for their performance of Chopin's works, laying the foundation for the traditions of the Russian style. And in our time, Chopin's music is popular among performers and listeners. After all, Chopin's work is a world of extraordinary beauty. Listening to it, you forget that you are listening to only one instrument, the piano. Boundless spaces full of secrets and adventures open before you. And I really want this new, newly opened world to never leave you.
Bouquet of flowers, passions glow,
I hear, I feel, I see
(as in the reflections of the mirrors of the salons of old Paris - a Slavic look, a shadow of illness) in His mazurkas ice and fire,
Lazenok cute May day,
Mallorca is a hot gray stone, and a stone that I wore in my soul, and a cough (every day gets longer), and the memory of the heart, where I kept the melodies of half-forgotten Poland,
In the mazurkas, it seems, her sadness reigns, and her gentle appearance, but suddenly - and Poland's rebellious spirit will sound in a triple dance.
In a bouquet of flowers of passion glow,
He turned without any rules.
He left his genius to the world,
And he bequeathed his heart to Poland.
1. All Chopin's works are filled with emotions, experiences, and have a deep meaning.
2. Listening to Chopin's works, you forget that there is only one instrument, the piano. It replaces the whole orchestra.
3. Chopin's music has become international, it has conquered all of Europe.
4. There were many trials in Chopin's life, which he was helped to cope with by the core laid down in childhood.
5. Chopin created his own unique piano style, new types and colors of piano sound, new pedal technique.
6. All Chopin's work is permeated with great love for the Motherland.
7. Chopin is the greatest master of melody.
Eternal themes of art and life.
Images of chamber music. The mighty kingdom of Chopin. Far from home. Instrumental ballad. Great things are born. Night landscape. Nocturne. Art Gallery.
Instrumental concert. "Seasons". "Italian Concert". "Space landscape". "Perhaps all nature is a mosaic of flowers?" Art Gallery.
Symbols of symphonic music."Blizzard". Musical illustrations for the novel by A. S. Pushkin. "Troika". "Waltz". "Spring and autumn". "Romance". "Pastoral". "Military March" "Wedding". “I will shed tears over fiction.”
Symphonic development of musical images."Merry in sorrow, sad in joy." Connection of times.
The lifeblood of artistic images of any kind of art. The embodiment of time and space in the art of music, the moral quest of man. Originality and specificity of artistic images of chamber and symphonic music.
Prelude. Waltz. Mazurka. Polonaise. Etude. musical language. Ballad. Quartet. Nocturne. Suite.
Form. Similarities and differences as the main principle of the development and construction of music. Repetition (variability, variance). Refrain, episodes. The interaction of several musical images based on their comparison, collision, conflict.
Synthesizer. Coloring. Harmony. Lad. Timbre. Dynamics.
Program music and its genres (suite, introduction to the opera, symphonic poem, fantasy overture, musical illustrations, etc.). Pastoral. Military march. Lyrical, dramatic images.
Treatment. Interpretation. Interpretation.
Generalization of the material of the third quarter.
Program overture. Egmont Overture. Sorrow and joy. Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.
The world of musical theatre. Ballet Romeo and Juliet. Musical West Side Story. Opera "Orpheus and Eurydice". Rock opera "Orpheus and Eurydice".
Film music images."Romeo and Juliet" in the cinema of the XX century. Music in national cinema.
Research project.
The following content lines are revealed: Program overture. Sonata form (its sections). Contrast, conflict. Duet. lyrical images.
Outstanding ballet dancers. Image-portrait. Mass scenes. Topic contrast. Modern interpretation of classical plots and images: musical, rock opera, film music. Vocal-instrumental ensemble, choir, soloists. Vocal music. Instrumental music.
Topics of research projects:
Images of the Motherland, native land in musical art. Images of defenders of the Fatherland in music, fine arts, literature. Folk music: origins, directions, plots and images, famous performers and performing groups. Music in the temple synthesis of arts: from the past to the future. Music Serious and Light: Problems, Judgments, Opinions. Author's song: favorite bards. What is modernity in music.
Generalization of the material of the fourth quarter.
musical material
Prelude No. 24 ; Ballad№ 1 for piano. F. Chopin.
Nocturnes for piano. P. Tchaikovsky.
Nocturnes for piano. F. Chopin. Nocturne (3rd part). From Quartet No. 2. A. Borodin.
Ballad of guitar and trumpet . I. Frenkel, words by Yu. Levitansky.
Seasons . Cycle of concertos for orchestra and solo violin (fragments). A. Vivaldi.
Italian concert
(fragments) for clavier. I.-S. Bach.
Preludes for piano. M. Ciurlionis.
Musical illustrations for A. Pushkin's story "The Snowstorm » (fragments). G. Sviridov.
Stay with me . N. Zubov, lyrics by NN.
Here comes the daring trio. Russian folk song, lyrics F. Glinka.
Symphony№ 4 (2nd part). P. Tchaikovsky.
Symphony№ 2 ("Bogatyrskaya") (1st part). A. Borodin. Symphony№ 3 ("Heroic") (4th part). L. Beethoven. Overture to the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila". M. Glinka.
Ave, verum. V.-A. Mozart.
Mozartiana. Orchestral Suite No. 4 (3rd movement). P. Tchaikovsky.
Egmont. Overture. L. Beethoven.
Sorrow and joy . Canon. L. Beethoven.
Romeo And Juliet . Overture-fantasy (fragments). P. Tchaikovsky.
Romeo and Juliet . Ballet (fragments). S. Prokofiev. Romeo and Juliet . Musical sketches (suite) for large symphony orchestra. D. Kabalevsky.
West Side Story . Musical (fragments). L. Bernstein.
Orpheus and Eurydice. Opera (fragments). K. Gluck.
Orpheus and Eurydice . Rock opera. A. Zhurbin, lyrics by Y. Dimitrin.
Words of love . From the movie Romeo and Juliet. N. Rota, Russian text by L. Derbenev, edited by G. Podolsky.
Overture (fragments); Song of the Cheerful Wind . From the movie "Children of Captain Grant". I. Dunayevsky.
Music lesson 6th grade program G.P. Sergeeva, E.D. Cretan
Chapter The world of images of chamber and symphonic music.
Lesson topic "The Mighty Kingdom of Chopin"
Target: acquaintance with the genres of chamber music instrumental miniature music by F. Chopin.
Tasks: Educational: to instill love for the native land, the Motherland on the example of the life and work of F. Chopin.
Educational: introduce the era of romanticism and images of chamber music.
Developing: to learn to think about music, to be able to express their own position regarding the music they listened to, to work on the sensual performance of songs,
Know: highlights of F.Chopin's creativity; various genres of piano miniatures.
During the classes
Organizing time.
Listen to the music and determine the style of the composer, to which composer it can be attributed.
C layd No. 2 and No. 3 Listening to Waltz and Polonaise.
Guessed?
Find out from the description about the music of which composer, pianist - virtuoso we will talk about today .
— He sang the soul of his people, created beautiful melodies and dances
He limited his creativity to piano music.
— He is a classic of Polish music. His name is on a par with the names of brilliant composers, like Slide #4(portraits of composers on the board) Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky.
Slide #5— The work of F. Chopin is a vast world of extraordinary beauty. His wondrous, wonderful music, written by a great composer and musician. Sincerity of feelings - that's what matters! What can you tell about the work of Frederic Chopin?
Read paragraph 1 on page 98 of your textbook. What can be added? Slide #6
Fragment of the documentary encyclopedia "F.Chopin", work with cards.
Fryderyk Chopin did not write great works, neither symphonies nor operas, but how can this be the main thing? Every person is capable of freedom of thought, speech, feelings. Express it the way he wants. He was closest to the miniature genres.
Slide number 7(small pieces): preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas, sonatas. Each play, dance is a state of mind, even while living in Paris, he wrote Polish music. Almost all the dances written by F. Chopin were Polish, and the Mazurka was a favorite.
Of course, in the modern world, listeners of classical music are becoming, understand the musical language of F. Chopin. As a sign of love and respect for the work of F. Chopin, the St. Petersburg composer Sergei Savenkov uses the melody of the nocturne and writes an amazing song to the verses of Tatyana Tarasova. The song is popular among children's groups, often heard on the radio. Slide #8
Performance of "Chopin's Nocturne" music S. Savenkov, lyrics by T. Tarasova.
Slide #9
Chopin's music is permeated, on the one hand, by lyricism, the subtlety of conveying various moods, and, on the other, by tragedy and heroism. (p. 98, 2nd paragraph)
Chopin revived the prelude on a romantic basis, which is a semantic center that reflects a certain "movement and life of the soul." Slide #10
Listening to Prelude No. 7 and Prelude No. 20. Music discussion.
What image do preludes create? What does F. Chopin want to tell us, tell us? what does the music represent, what feelings does it convey?
Slide #13 Living far from his homeland, he always thought about it, all my thoughts, feelings, experiences are his music. In it one can hear pain, and suffering, and impulse, and the bitterness of loss, and love, and faith, and deep sadness. The tragedy of the Polish people has become my personal tragedy. There are circumstances in life when it is impossible to change anything. In a foreign country, he knew fame, respect, recognition, success, he was surrounded by creative people, he found love - isn't that what you say happiness ?! For an exile, there is no greater happiness than to be with the Motherland and live for it!
Let's let's listen to performed by the outstanding pianist Svyatoslav Richter
Slide number 14, 15 - Etude number 12 and Prelude No. 24 what unites these two different genres, what does the composer want to convey to us, what can be said about music? Slide #16
Slide #17 Dreamer ardent, noble,
Master of piano scenes
Folk melody poet
All this is Frederic Chopin.
Listening to curly music,
I hear the splashing waves
And splashes of sunny May,
And October glass shine,
And the call of the Fatherland is harsh,
And the revolution is open.
Here the pianist frowned,
Stepping into "B-flat minor".
Ringing a piano chord,
The foam wave is playing.
Influx witchcraft and strange
She takes over the room.
Spreading like wings, shoulders,
Like an angel, weightless and pure,
Soars the whole piano evening
Above the hall is a fragile pianist. Vladimir Efremovich Shostak
At the end of the lesson, you need to answer a series of questions.
Why F. Chopin chose the piano for his creative work.
Do you think that Chopin was a romantic, Why.
Did F. Chopin really leave the country when he learned about the Polish uprising?
What genres of miniature were close to F. Chopin. (preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas)
What kind of music occupied a leading place in the work of F. Chopin? (dancing)
What distinguishes the music of Fryderyk Chopin, what is his music connected with?
What distinguishes the music of F. Chopin? Of course, the Motherland, to which Chopin was very attached, and his fate was closely intertwined with the fate of the Motherland. slide number 18
What a morning at home!
What meadows and forests
The dew sparkles with mother-of-pearl.
Native land ... Eh! Beauty!
It smells of wormwood, grass,
young green foliage
Ah, motherland, only with you
I am forever bound by fate!
Motherland, that's what every citizen should think about. Think about what your homeland is for you ...
Slide #19
Performance of the song "Spring of Russia" music A. Ermolova, lyrics by Gulevskaya.
Slide #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27
Crossword: "Chopin" - vertically. (Questions to consolidate the material).
Romantic composer of the 19th century, who wrote the music for the song "Evening Star".
What title did Chopin get for his music?
Chopin's favorite instrument.
What kind of dance are we talking about: “Ceremonial ballroom dance - procession”?
What kind of music occupied a leading place in the work of F. Chopin?
Slide #28 Here in the hall is Chopin himself,
And sweet songs captured
And sensitively catches the ear
Music long sound.
Piano like a white spirit
The melody floats
That joy in the heart pours,
It glows with sadness.
The melody floats...
And a light waltz blooms -
It cries, it laughs
It will ascend to the sky
That will echo -
love memory
And genius breathing.
