Composer

Frédéric Chopin

1810 - 1849

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His biography is available in 163 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 160 in 2024). Frédéric Chopin is the 4th most popular composer, the 4th most popular biography from Poland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Composer.

Frédéric Chopin is most famous for his piano compositions, which include études, preludes, nocturnes, and waltzes.

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Among Composers

Among composers, Frédéric Chopin ranks 4 out of 1,451Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach. After him are Antonio Vivaldi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1After him are Pope Leo XIII, Robert Schumann, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, P. T. Barnum, Éliphas Lévi, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Theodor Schwann, Howard Staunton, Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1849, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1After him are Edgar Allan Poe, James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 4 out of NaNBefore him are Marie Curie (1867), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), and Pope John Paul II (1920). After him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847).

Among Composers In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1After him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Viktor Ullmann (1898).

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