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Frédéric Chopin

1810 - 1849

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Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) 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 musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frédéric Chopin has received more than 10,374,227 page views. His biography is available in 153 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 145 in 2019). Frédéric Chopin is the 4th most popular composer (up from 5th in 2019), the 3rd 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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  • 153

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.76

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Frédéric Chopin ranks 4 out of 1,216. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach. After him are Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Schubert, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, George Frideric Handel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Johannes Brahms.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 3 out of 1,454. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473) and Marie Curie (1867). After him are Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Fritz Haber (1868).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Martin Agricola (1486), Józef Elsner (1769), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).

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