Frédéric Chopin is a great piano player from a long time ago
I've never even heard of him, what time period is he from?
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (, , , , ; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
Chopin was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy,
lacked in having surprising or exciting moments.
Inspiration.
In the fall and winter of 2010 and 2011, Michael Silver listened to several synthesizer-heavy modern classical and piano-only works by composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Glenn Gould, Philip Glass, and David Borden. He described them as the "soundtrack" to how he felt "kind of uncertain” in that time period. Listening to these works influenced him to record a piano-and-vocal-only version of a track from his previous extended