CHOPIN Ballade 1 in G minor op 23 - Pianist Michel Mananes Live Concert

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Michel Mañanes plays live the Chopin Ballade 1 op.23 G minor. Michel Mañanes study piano in France, Spain and Austria. With recitals for europa and suramerica specially. He won first prize in several young piano competitions. He is Piano Teacher in Madrid and continue to give concerts.ballade.classical concert pianist.
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Michel Mañanes has obtained, recently, the University Title of "Expert in Pianistic Interpretation", gotten with "Cum Laudae" by Unanimous vote (International University of Andalusia)

Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk [Franciszek] Chopin, sometimes Szopen; French: Frédéric [François] Chopin; surname pronunciation in English: IPA: /ˈʃoʊpæn/ and French: French pronunciation: March 1, 1810 -- October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets.

He was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. In November 1830, at the age of 20, Chopin went abroad; following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830--31, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration."

In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. A Polish patriot,in France he used the French versions of his names and eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents, became a French citizen. After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he conducted a turbulent relationship with the French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant). Always in frail health, in 1849 he died in Paris, at the age of 39, of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis.

Chopin's extant compositions were written primarily for the piano as a solo instrument. Though technically demanding, Chopin's style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than virtuosity. Chopin invented musical forms such as the ballade and was responsible for major innovations in forms such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude, impromptu and prelude. His works are mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century classical music.

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  • VERY LOVLEY MUSIC AND INTERPRETATION. THANKS FOR UPLOADING.

  • Un poquito tarde la respuesta. Mil disculpas.

    Bello. Felicitaciones!!!

  • Always a pleasure to hear you play Michel!!

  • The perfect rendition of a masterpiece... Splendid phrasing, with great musical expressiveness... I can feel all the emotions you are transmitting with your playing... An absolute marvel!!! ♥♪♫♪♥

  • ONE OF YOUR MOST BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCES DEAR MICHEL :-)SO TRUE AND EMOTIONAL...A TOTAL AND DEEP " SYMBIOSE " (HEHE)...THANK YOU :-)))

    PAULETTE.

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