Nicolas chopin biography video
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Biography
The popular image of Fryderyk Chopin as a consumptive invalid does him a disservice. He was a man of paradoxes: a Polish nationalist who lived out his days in exile in France; a musician who hated giving public concerts; a composer whose piano works were replete with the influence of bel canto opera, and whose idols in the early Romantic era were Bach and Mozart. Lavishly melodic yet classically restrained, visionary in imagination yet tautly constructed, his was one of the most individual musical voices of his era. Born at Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, Chopin was son of a Polish mother. His father, Nicolas (or Mikolaj) Chopin was born in France, having moved to Poland in his youth. A strong patriot, Chopin sometimes said that he wished his name could have been Chopinski. His first composition was a Polonaise – the classic Polish slow dance – while his last would be another Polish dance, a Mazurka. Chopin fell in love with a young soprano Konstantja Gladkowska w
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A Tribute to Frederic Chopin
A beautiful musical evening in memory of Frederic Chopin. The music historian Jean-Marc Amon recounted the life of Chopin along side an illustrated speech on the piano by Elizabeth Sombart, pianist.
Biography:
Frédéric François Chopin was born on February 22, 1810, near Warsaw, Poland. He was the second of four children of Nicholas Chopin, a Frenchman, and his Polish wife, Justina, who had been a well-educated but poor relative in the Skarbek household, where Nicholas had been a tutor. At an early age, Chopin displayed artistic talents—he was an artist, wrote poetry, and played piano without any formal instruction. The gifted child also began composing his own music and had his first piece of music published when he was just seven years old.
Young Chopin had a good education and later studied music privately with Joseph Elsner, founder and director of the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1817 Chopin’s first composition was performed publicly. A year l
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Nicolas CHOPIN
Specialties:
Bayesian computation
Monte Carlo methods, particularly sequential Monte Carlo (particle filters), but also Markov chain Monte Carlo
Variational inference
Probabilistic Machine Learning
Department:
ENSAE-CREST
Statistics
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