Happy Birthday! ♫ Style of Chopin

Happy Birthday

In the style of Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. Born: March 1, 1810, Żelazowa Wola, Poland
Died: October 17, 1849, Paris, France
Nationality: Polish
Cause of death: Tuberculosis

Happy Birthday in the style of Chopin
By:  Edoardo Brotto +  Alexander NordenMany of you waited for the sheet music of this piece. Here it is!
The transcription of my improvisation on the happy birthday theme in the style of Chopin is finally real.
Alexander Norden took me by surprise when he sent me his transcription. He did a great job and after a revision and some corrections, I took the occasion to improve the piece with a few new elements. 

I also re-recorded it and here it is, Happy Birthday Chopin!

This music was inspired by Tartarov's variations which I listened many years ago and completely forgotten as the time passed by. It came again to mind as a very similar idea and once someone made me notice it was similar to Mr. Hauser's piece, it was a big pleasure for me to rediscover his original music.

Music Video by Edoardo Brotto

Happy Birthday in the Style of Chopin
(composition by Edoardo Brotto)

 

Sheet music is available for purchase! (€5 = 5.30$ = £4.30):

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Frédéric François Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæ̃/; French: [ʃɔpɛ̃]; Polish: [ˈʂɔpɛn]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."

 

Chopin was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At 21, he settled in Paris. Thereafter—in the last 18 years of his life—he gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by giving piano lessons, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his other musical contemporaries (including Robert Schumann). In 1835, Chopin obtained French citizenship. After a failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska from 1836 to 1837, he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin (known by her pen name, George Sand). A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 1838–39 would prove one of his most productive periods of composition. In his final years, he was supported financially by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. For most of his life, Chopin was in poor health. He died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39, probably of tuberculosis.

All of Chopin's compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some 19 songs set to Polish lyrics. His piano writing was technically demanding and expanded the limits of the instrument: his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of the instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, preludes and sonatas, some published only posthumously. Among the influences on his style of composition were Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J. S. Bach, Mozart, and Schubert, and the atmosphere of the Paris salons of which he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style, harmony, and musical form, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.

Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his (indirect) association with political insurrection, his high-profile love-life, and his early death have made him a leading symbol of the Romantic era. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying historical fidelity. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin

 

Happy Birthday in Chopin Style

Piano Improvisation


Chopin Style Happy Birthday

Frédéric François Chopin

Frederic Chopin was born in Poland, west of Warsaw, in 1810, but it's not 100% confirmed on what day.  Local baptism records claim the composer came into the world on 22 February, but Chopin's parents said it was 1 March.