Music, throughout history, has been the marker of each era. Every period of music with its own distinct style and execution showcasing the change in the style of that particular time. This is the reason you can listen to the multiple eras throughout the history of our world and hear a timeline of our pasts as musicians. As you listen through the baroque with great composers such as Bach and Vivaldi and on to the the Classical period with proteges like Mozart and Beethoven. Finally before entering our time of modern music the Romantic era with Frederick Chopin, yet another child protege who helped bring in the next period of music. A man who lived during a time of revolutions and strife and in this time created compositions that people still analyze as well as enjoy today.
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He began his schooling with his father, an immigrant from France who worked as a tutor for the wealthy. By age seven Chopin had published his first composition and by age eight he performed publicly for the first time and by eleven he was performing for the tsar of russia, Alexander I. At age sixteen he was enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory of music. He spent time traveling to Both Berlin and Vienna to perform and by age twenty in 1830 he traveled to Paris, France shortly before the Polish revolt against Russia, preventing him from returning home. This is where he officially settled at the age of twenty-one a year
He began his schooling with his father, an immigrant from France who worked as a tutor for the wealthy. By age seven Chopin had published his first composition and by age eight he performed publicly for the first time and by eleven he was performing for the tsar of russia, Alexander I. At age sixteen he was enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory of music. He spent time traveling to Both Berlin and Vienna to perform and by age twenty in 1830 he traveled to Paris, France shortly before the Polish revolt against Russia, preventing him from returning home. This is where he officially settled at the age of twenty-one a year