Fryderyk Chopin: Frederic Chopin: Life and Works
Chopin and the soul of the piano
Music: Berceuse, Op. 57
Chopin the Pole
Music: Polonaise in G minor
Early education
Music: Variations on a German Air
Encounters with the Polish peasantry
Music: Mazurka in G major
Chopin as industrious pupil
Music: Sonata in C minor (Opening)
He finds his true voice as a composer
Music: Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 5
The fun-loving teenager
Music: Ecossaise, Op. 72, No. 3
Onset of illness and the death of a sister
Music: Nocturne in E minor
' Hats off, Gentlemen! A genius!'
Music: Variations on ' La ci darem la mano', Op. 2
The influence of Paganini
Music: Souvenir de Paganini
The First Etudes
Music: Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4
Success in Vienna
Music: Nocturne in C sharp minor
Chopin in love
Music: Polonaise for cello and piano
Stagnation, celebrity and the first Concerto
Music: Concerto in F minor, Op. 21
Return of vitality and inspiration
Music: Concerto in E minor, Op. 11
Farewells and the final departure from Poland
Europe and Chopin in crisis
Music: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor
Arrival in Paris
Music: Waltz in E flat, Op. 18
Paris, politics, Poles and performance
Music: Impromptu in A flat, Op. 29
Chopin and the Opera
Music: Andante spianato, Op. 22
Chopin and Kalkbrenner
Music: Etude in G flat, Op. 10, No. 5
The cholera epidemic; the fashionable teacher
Music: Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12, the 'Revolutionary'
Teaching in earnest
Music: Etude in A minor, Op. 25, No. 4
'Souplesse avant tout!'
Music: Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1
The Wodzinska affair
Music: Nocturne in B major, Op. 32, No. 1
' An elegant, pale, sad young man '
Music: Nocturne in D flat, Op. 27, No. 2
George Sand and a Majorcan winter
Music: Preludes,Op. 28
Misanthropy, hypocrisy and prejudice
Music: Mazurkas
At Nohant: an idyllic and creative summer
Music: Impromptu in F#
The Idyll continues
Music: Sonata in B flat minor - Funeral March and finale
The return to Paris
Music: Ballade No. 4 in F minor
Chopin grows moody, petulant and volatile
Music: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58-Finale
Failing health and mounting tensions
Music: Barcarolle, Op. 60
The break with Sand; illness; London
Music: Prelude in F sharp, Op. 28, No. 8
Scotland, London, Paris; decline and death
Music: Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53
