Posted in Chopin, Dmitri Vorobiev, Recordings, Variations, classical, rare & early works, tagged Chopin, Dmitri Vorobiev, Higher Music School, Paganini, rare works, Warsaw on 20 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This rare bit of Chopiniana was supposedly written after violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini came through Warsaw in the summer of 1829, a concert we know that Chopin attended. A month later he graduated from the Higher School of Music in Warsaw, where a teacher wrote, “Chopin, Fryderyk: third-year student, amazing capabilities, musical genius.”
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Posted in Chopin, Recordings, piano, rare & early works, tagged Chopin, dance music, ecossaises, improvisation, Warsaw on 18 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur Greene:
“In Warsaw, when Chopin was growing up, the social scene was extremely active, and anyone who wasn’t sick or crippled would go to dance parties almost every night. And the star of these events was usually Chopin, because he was both a great dancer himself – and he played for all of the [...]
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