answer
stringlengths
1
239
question
stringlengths
1
25.7k
her husband and daughter
Who accompanied Chopin's sister to Paris?
Jane Stirling
Who gave Chopin a loan in September for an apartment?
to faint
What did Parisian ladies consider proper etiquette when in Chopin's room?
fear of being buried alive
Why did Chopin request being cut open after his death?
"No longer"
What did Chopin reply to the doctor when asked is he was suffering?
Clésinger
Who made Chopin's death mask?
fear of being buried alive
Why did Chopin want his body opened when he died?
a cast of his left hand.
What did Solange's husband make hours after Chopin's death along with his death mask?
tuberculosis
What is listed as Chopin's official cause of death?
Jean Cruveilhier
What was the name of Chopin's doctor?
DNA testing
What has the Polish government not allowed to find true cause of death?
tuberculosis
What was the cause of death on Chopin's death certificate?
Jean Cruveilhier
Who was Chopin's physician?
cystic fibrosis
Other possiblities for Chopin's death include cirrhosis, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and what?
the Polish government.
Who has denied testing Chopin's DNA to determine the actual cause of death?
Church of the Madeleine
Where was Chopin's funeral held?
two weeks
How long was Chopin's funeral delayed?
Over 3,000
How many people arrived for Chopin's funeral?
the Church of the Madeleine in Paris
Where was Chopin's funeral held?
two weeks
How long was Chopin's funeral delayed?
Over 3,000
How many people arrived without an invitation?
Mozart's Requiem
What song was sung at Chopin's funeral?
Louis Lefébure-Wély
Who was the organist at Chopin's funeral?
Prince Adam Czartoryski
Who led Chopin's funeral procession?
Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2
What was played at his graveside?
Mozart's Requiem
What Mozart song was sung at Chopin's funeral?
Louis Lefébure-Wély
Who was the organist for Chopin's funeral?
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Which cemetery was Chopin buried in?
Prince Adam Czartoryski
Who led the funeral procession?
the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2
What was played at Chopin's graveside?
Clésinger
Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone?
Euterpe
What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone?
5,000 francs
How much did Chopin's funeral cost?
Jane Stirling
Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
alcohol
Chopin's sister Ludwika took his heart back to Warsaw preserved in what?
Clésinger.
Who designed Chopin's tombstone?
5,000 francs
How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost?
Jane Stirling
Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
sister
Who took Chopin's heart to Poland?
Sand
Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin?
Over 230
How many of Chopin's works still exist?
piano
All of his pieces include what instrument?
Over 230
How many Chopin pieces are known to have survived?
chamber music.
Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what?
Clementi
Whose piano method did Chopin teach his students?
Clementi
Whose piano method did Chopin use with his students?
Bach and Mozart
Who did Chopin say were the two most important composers in his own music influences?
Haydn
Chopin looked to Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi and who for his own music education?
John Field
Who is credited with creating the nocturne?
ballades and scherzi
Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces?
nocturne
What new genre di John Field invent?
ballades and scherzi
Chopin was first in writing what for concerts?
concert étude
What musical concept did Chopin exploit?
Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles
What three other musicians were developing the new genre?
seven
How many polonaises were published while Chopin lived?
nine
How many polonaises were published after Chopin died?
mazurkas
Chopin was credited for making what more internationally known?
faster tempos
What is different about Chopin's waltzes versus a ballroom waltz?
greater range of melody and expression.
What did Chopin add to the modern dance of his era?
concert hall
Chopin's Polish dance music was developed for what type of hall?
the mazurka
What was Chopin responsible for making popular with Euorpeans?
nine
How many Chopin polonaises were published after his death?
waltzes
What dance music of Chopin was written more for recitals than ballrooms?
the Revolutionary Étude
What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered?
Funeral March
What is the only piece Chopin gave an actual title to?
Sonata No. 2
The Funeral March was written as part of what piece?
one
How many instrumental works did Chopin give a descriptive name to?
Revolutionary Étude
What descriptive name was Op. 10, No. 12 given?
Minute Waltz
What descriptive name was Op. 64, No. 1 given?
65
What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus?
Julian Fontana
Who was Chopin's musical executor?
23
How many unfinished pieces did Julian Fontana make into eight more opus numbers?
17
Op. 74 is made up of how many Polish songs?
65
What is the last opus number that Chopin used?
Julian Fontana
Who grouped 23 unpublished pieces and published them as Opp. 66-73 in 1855?
1857
When was Op. 74 published?
Krystyna Kobylańska
The Kobylańska Catalogue was named for who?
1857
Pieces published after what year stopped receiving opus numbers?
alternative catalogue designations
What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers?
the Kobylańska Catalogue
What is the current musicologist reference for Chopin's pieces?
KK
What is the shortened reference for the Kobylańska Catalogue?
Krystyna Kobylańska.
Who compiled the Kobylańska Catalogue?
Breitkopf & Härtel
Who released the first collection of Chopin's works?
Jan Ekier
Who edited the Polish "National Edition" of Chopin's works?
original publishers
Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin?
popular 19th-century piano anthologies.
Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up?
Paderewski
What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966?
Jan Ekier
Who edited the Polish National Edition?
Improvisation
What is central to Chopin's process?
the four-bar phrase
Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how he handles what?
Improvisation
What is central to Chopin's creativeness?
Nicholas Temperley
Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"?
his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit.
What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality?
the Barcarolle Op. 60
What piece does J. Barrie Jones pinpoint as a great example of Chopin's palette?
the four ballades and four scherzos
What does J. Barrie Jones feel stands supreme of Chopin's concert pieces?
departure and return
What form does Temperley feel that Chopin's ballades and scherzos are based on?
folk features
Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions?
straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda.
What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in?
mazurkas
Which of Chopin's works shows more folk aspects?
drone bass
What type of bass do Chopin's mazurkas exhibit?