Chopin met the writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) through Liszt, and they became lovers, traveling to Mallorca in 1838-39.
Composer Biography
Chopin's particular genius was in intimate performances and teaching, rather than competing with more ostentatious virtuosi like Liszt, Thalberg, or Kalkbrenner.
Composer Biography
Fryderyk Chopin, though a Polish patriot, was the son of a French father who had settled in Poland to avoid French army conscription.
Composer Biography
Chopin spent almost his entire professional career in Paris, moving there in 1831, where he became a fashionable piano teacher and performer in elegant salons.
Performer Biography
The Kungsbacka Piano Trio, formed in 1997, won First Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
Performer Biography
Emily Beynon, the principal flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, performs regularly as a concerto soloist and chamber musician.
Performer Biography
Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore, a piano duo, met as students at the Royal Academy of Music and are both Steinway Artists.
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