FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)

Beautiful music, frail body.

SOME BEAUTY FROM CHOPIN (Requires sound card, speakers, and Real Audio player.)

• Prelude #13, Opus 28 (445KB Real Audio)
• Berceuse in D flat, Opus 57 (642KB Real Audio)
• Andante Spianato and Grande Brilliante in E flat Major, Opus 22 (494KB Real Audio)
• Prelude #24, Opus 28 (359KB Real Audio)
• Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Opus 45 (610KB Real Audio)
• Piano Sonata #3, Largo , Opus 58 (1.2MB Real Audio)
• Nocturne in C sharp minor, Opus posthumous. Performed by Wladyslaw Szpilman, "The Pianist"! "On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman, a young Warsaw pianist, played  Chopin's "Nocturne in C Sharp Minor" live on the radio, while German shells exploded outside -- so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: Later that day, a German bomb destroyed the power station, and Polish Radio went off the air." (534KB Real Audio)

SOME CHOPIN LINKS

• Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
• Short Chopin Biography

SOME OTHER BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

• Etude de Concert in E Flat Major op 193 by Felix Godefroid (1818-1897). Yes, this is a harp! (600KB Real Audio)
• Hungarian Rhapsody #5 in E Minor by Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Soul music! (1.5MB Real Audio)
• Andante, Piano Concerto #2 in F Major, opus 102 by Shostakovich. Float away to oblivion! (885 KB Real Audio)
• Prelude, Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The purity of a single harp! (455 KB Real Audio)

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