Piano Concerto No. 1 : Work information - Work name - Piano
Concerto No. 1 - Work number - Op. 11 - E minor - 1830-09-01
01:00:00 - Forlane CI - Ivan Pastor - Andrzej Sasin - Recording
date - 1990-01-01 00:00:00 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin Since all
that survives of Chopin is the brilliant music that he wrote,
it's all too easy to forget that he was also a great performer.
He wrote difficult and innovative music so that he could perform
it himself. Chopin’s father was a French schoolteacher, and his
mother was Polish. He grew up in Warsaw, Poland, and studied
music as a child, and then at the Warsaw Conservatory between
1826 and 1829. He had already published several pieces of music,
and during 1829 and 1830 he became well-known as a pianist,
giving concerts in Warsaw and Vienna. He composed almost all of
his music for the piano (although sometimes with orchestral
accompaniment). He tended to write his music actually at the
piano, sometimes struggling to put his ideas onto paper. But he
was unhappy in Poland a