* Godnat ~ Goodnight ~ Bonne nuit ~ Buonanotte ~ Gute Nacht ~ ราตรีสวัสดิ์ * Frédéric Chopins Berceuse Op. 57 (1843–44) is a lullaby to be played on piano. It consists of variations in D-flat major. The music begins and ends in 6/8 time. At first the composer titled the work Variations, but the title was altered for publication to the current Berceuse. It was first published by J. Meissonnier of Paris in 1844 and dedicated to Elise Gavard (who was born in 1842). Chopins Opus 57 is a berceuse for solo piano. youtube/watch?v=v1CXY5NHvms Frédéric François Chopin born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation. His keyboard style is highly individual and often technically demanding; his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include sonatas, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, and preludes, some published only after his death. Many contain elements of both Polish folk music and of the classical tradition of J.S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, the music of all of whom he admired. His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period. Both in his native Poland and beyond, Chopins music, his status as one of musics earliest superstars, his association (if only indirect) with political insurrection, his love life and his early death have made him, in the public consciousness, a leading symbol of the Romantic era. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of historical accuracy. Over 230 works of Chopin survive; some compositions from early childhood have been lost. All his known works involve the piano, and only a few range beyond solo piano music, as either piano concertos, songs or chamber music. Chopin took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by the Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades and scherzi as individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op. 28, published 1839). He exploited the poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s by Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles, in his two sets of studies (Op. 10 published in 1833, Op. 25 in 1837). Chopin also endowed popular dance forms with a greater range of melody and expression. Chopins mazurkas, while originating in the traditional Polish dance (the mazurek), differed from the traditional variety in that they were written for the concert hall rather than the dance hall; it was Chopin who put the mazurka on the European musical map. The series of seven polonaises published in his lifetime (another nine were published posthumously), beginning with the Op. 26 pair (published 1836), set a new standard for music in the form. His waltzes were also written specifically for the salon recital rather than the ballroom and are frequently at rather faster tempos than their dance-floor equivalents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin Image: Chopin statue, Łazienki Park, Warsaw It was designed in 1907 by Wacław Szymanowski for planned erection on the centenary of Chopins birth in 1910, but its execution was delayed by controversy about the design, then by the outbreak of World War I. The statue was finally cast and erected in 1926. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81azienki_Park#Chopin_monument Park Łazienkowski or Łazienki Królewskie, literally Baths Park or Royal Baths; often rendered Royal Baths Park is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81azienki_Park
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