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gq: Interactions between alcohol and certain antibiotics may occur and may cause side-effects and decreased effectiveness of antibiotic therapy. While moderate alcohol consumption is unlikely to interfere with many common antibiotics, there are specific types of antibiotics with which alcohol consumption may cause seri... | Question: What common drug can reduce antibiotic effectiveness? Question: What is one potential issue with drinking alcohol while taking antibiotics? Question: What can alcohol and certain antibiotics cause? Question: Do all antibiotics interact dangerously with alcohol? Question: What is unlikely to interfere with wi... |
gq: Several molecular mechanisms of antibacterial resistance exist. Intrinsic antibacterial resistance may be part of the genetic makeup of bacterial strains. For example, an antibiotic target may be absent from the bacterial genome. Acquired resistance results from a mutation in the bacterial chromosome or the acquisi... | Question: What is part of hje the make up of bacterial strains? Question: What can be absent from the bacterial genome? Question: What does some resistance come from? Question: When does the spread of antibacterial resistance frequently occurs/ Question: What method of spread can occur in antibacterial resistance? Ques... |
gq: Antibacterial-resistant strains and species, sometimes referred to as "superbugs", now contribute to the emergence of diseases that were for a while well controlled. For example, emergent bacterial strains causing tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to previously effective antibacterial treatments pose many therap... | Question: What are strains that are resistant to antibiotics called sometimes? Question: What was a once almost controlled disease that is coming back do to resistance? Question: How many new infections of resistant TB are reported per year? Question: What is the acronym used to describe resistant TB? |
gq: Inappropriate antibiotic treatment and overuse of antibiotics have contributed to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Self prescription of antibiotics is an example of misuse. Many antibiotics are frequently prescribed to treat symptoms or diseases that do not respond to antibiotics or that are likely t... | Question: What are the two biggest reasons for resistance? Question: What is a common method of misuse? Question: What is an example of bad treatment causing resistance? |
gq: Common forms of antibiotic misuse include excessive use of prophylactic antibiotics in travelers and failure of medical professionals to prescribe the correct dosage of antibiotics on the basis of the patient's weight and history of prior use. Other forms of misuse include failure to take the entire prescribed cour... | Question: What is a way of improperly using antibiotics for those traveling? Question: What can happen if a doctor doesn't prescribe to a person's weight and prior use? Question: What are 3 other common forms of bad antibiotic practices? Question: What happens when a cold is treated with antibiotics? Question: What do ... |
gq: Several organizations concerned with antimicrobial resistance are lobbying to eliminate the unnecessary use of antibiotics. The issues of misuse and overuse of antibiotics have been addressed by the formation of the US Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance. This task force aims to actively address anti... | Question: What is the name of a US government agency tasked with trying to stop improper use of antibiotics? Question: Which agencies control this task force? Question: When did the French start going after overuse of antibiotics? |
gq: The emergence of antibiotic resistance has prompted restrictions on their use in the UK in 1970 (Swann report 1969), and the EU has banned the use of antibiotics as growth-promotional agents since 2003. Moreover, several organizations (e.g., The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), American Public Health Associ... | Question: What report caused the UK to worry about resistance? Question: When did the EU ban antibiotics for speeding up growth? Question: What 3 US organizations have called for the banning of antibiotics in the production of food animals? Question: Name two US bills that want to ban antibiotics in food production? Qu... |
gq: There has been extensive use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. In the United States, the question of emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains due to use of antibiotics in livestock was raised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1977. In March 2012, the United States District Court for the S... | Question: What besides sick people are antibiotics used for? Question: When was resistance first discussed as a problem in the raising of farm animals? Question: When did a district court order the FDA to stop approving antibiotics in animals? |
gq: Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore. Mixtures with antimicrobial properties that were used in treatments of infections were described over 2000 years ago. Many ancient cultures, including the ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, used specially selecte... | Question: What methods did people use before antibiotics to treat infections? Question: When were some kinds of antimicrobials first used? Question: What type of things did Egyptians and Greeks use? Question: What does antibiosis mean? Question: Who came up with the term antibiosis? |
gq: The effects of some types of mold on infection had been noticed many times over the course of history (see: History of penicillin). In 1928, Alexander Fleming noticed the same effect in a Petri dish, where a number of disease-causing bacteria were killed by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. Fleming postulated that... | Question: What type of organism has been reported to have worked on infections? Question: Who noticed in a lab the antibacterial characteristics of mold? Question: What mold did Fleming notice had antibacterial properties? Question: What did Fleming initially think a good use would be for it? |
gq: The first sulfonamide and first commercially available antibacterial, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany. Domagk received the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his efforts. Prontosil had a relatively broad effe... | Question: What was the first available antibiotic? Question: Who led the team that came up with Prontosil? Question: What company developed Prontosil? Question: What prize did Domagk get for his work? |
gq: In 1939, coinciding with the start of World War II, Rene Dubos reported the discovery of the first naturally derived antibiotic, tyrothricin, a compound of 20% gramicidin and 80% tyrocidine, from B. brevis. It was one of the first commercially manufactured antibiotics universally and was very effective in treating ... | Question: When was tyrothricin created? Question: What also happened in 1939 besides tyrothricin? Question: Who discovered tyrothricin? Question: What was the first antibiotic developed from nature? Question: What was tyrothricin used for during the war? |
gq: Florey and Chain succeeded in purifying the first penicillin, penicillin G, in 1942, but it did not become widely available outside the Allied military before 1945. Later, Norman Heatley developed the back extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin in bulk. The chemical structure of penicillin was de... | Question: When was penicillin G first purified? Question: When did penicillin G become available outside of military use? Question: Who came up with a way to quickly produce penicillin? Question: Who discovered the chemical structure of penicillin? Question: When was the chemical make-up of penicillin discovered? |
gq: Vaccines rely on immune modulation or augmentation. Vaccination either excites or reinforces the immune competence of a host to ward off infection, leading to the activation of macrophages, the production of antibodies, inflammation, and other classic immune reactions. Antibacterial vaccines have been responsible f... | Question: What do vaccines need to work? Question: What type of vaccines have saved millions of lives? Question: What types of vaccines have been phased out? |
gq: Phage therapy is another option that is being looked into for treating resistant strains of bacteria. The way that researchers are doing this is by infecting pathogenic bacteria with their own viruses, more specifically, bacteriophages. Bacteriophages, also known simply as phages, are precisely bacterial viruses th... | Question: What has been talked about to treat resistant bacteria? Question: How have researchers been doing this? Question: What is a worry of using phages? |
gq: In April 2013, the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) reported that the weak antibiotic pipeline does not match bacteria's increasing ability to develop resistance. Since 2009, only 2 new antibiotics were approved in the United States. The number of new antibiotics approved for marketing per year declines... | Question: What year did the Infectious Disease Society of America say that production of new antibiotics does not keep up with resistance? Question: How many antibiotics have been created in the last 7 years? Question: How many are in the pipelin to fight GNB? |
gq: Possible improvements include clarification of clinical trial regulations by FDA. Furthermore, appropriate economic incentives could persuade pharmaceutical companies to invest in this endeavor. Antibiotic Development to Advance Patient Treatment (ADAPT) Act aims to fast track the drug development to combat the gro... | Question: Who regulates antibiotic approval? Question: What could help to spur pharmaceuticals to make new antibiotics? Question: What are resistant bacteria called in the media? Question: Who is a director at the Pew Charitable Trusts? |
gq: Frédéric François Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæn/; French pronunciation: [fʁe.de.ʁik fʁɑ̃.swa ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; 22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,[n 1] was a Polish and French (by citizenship and birth of father) composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for th... | Question: What year was Chopin born? Question: In what year was Chopin born? Question: When did Chopin die? Question: What year did Chopin die? Question: What was Chopin's full name? Question: What was Frédéric's nationalities? Question: In what era was Frédéric active in? Question: What era was Chopin active during? Q... |
gq: At the age of 21 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship wit... | Question: At what age did Frédéric move to Paris? Question: At what age did Chopin move to Paris? Question: Where did he end up living when he was 21? Question: How many public performances was Frédéric estimated to have given during the remainder of his life? Question: How many public shows did he perform during the l... |
gq: 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 songs to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style is highly individual and often technically demanding; his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin ... | Question: What instrument did every composition by Frédéric include? Question: Which instrument do every one of his compositions include? Question: What instrument is involved in all of Chopin's work? Question: What instrument was all of Chopin's compositions written for? Question: Chopin wrote some music to lyrics, wh... |
gq: In his native Poland, in France, where he composed most of his works, and beyond, Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his association (if only indirect) with political insurrection, his love life and his early death have made him, in the public consciousness, a leading symbol of the Ro... | Question: Chopin is a native of what country? Question: Where did Chopin create the majority of his compositions? Question: Where did Chopin create most of his works? Question: What was the degree of Frédéric's association with political insurrection? Question: He had a non-direct association with what? Question: Chopi... |
gq: Fryderyk Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, 46 kilometres (29 miles) west of Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon. The parish baptismal record gives his birthday as 22 February 1810, and cites his given names in the Latin form Fridericus Franciscus (in Polish, he was F... | Question: In what village was Frédéric born in? Question: Where was Chopin born? Question: Chopin was actually born outside of Warsaw at what location? Question: How many miles was the village Frédéric born in located to the west of Warsaw? Question: Who was responsible for the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw? Question... |
gq: Fryderyk's father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1787 at the age of sixteen. Nicolas tutored children of the Polish aristocracy, and in 1806 married Justyna Krzyżanowska, a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. Fryderyk was baptized on ... | Question: What was the given name of Chopin's father? Question: What was Chopin's father's first name? Question: Where was Chopin's father from? Question: From where id Chopin's father emigrate from? Question: What language did Frédéric's father, Nicolas, insist on using in the household? Question: Who did Frédéric's f... |
gq: In October 1810, six months after Fryderyk's birth, the family moved to Warsaw, where his father acquired a post teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum, then housed in the Saxon Palace. Fryderyk lived with his family in the Palace grounds. The father played the flute and violin; the mother played the piano and gave l... | Question: During what month did Frédéric move to Warsaw with his family? Question: When did Chopin's family move to Warsaw? Question: How old was Chopin when his family moved to Warsaw? Question: What language did Frédéric's father teach after they had moved to Warsaw? Question: What language did Chopin's father teach?... |
gq: Fryderyk may have had some piano instruction from his mother, but his first professional music tutor, from 1816 to 1821, was the Czech pianist Wojciech Żywny. His elder sister Ludwika also took lessons from Żywny, and occasionally played duets with her brother. It quickly became apparent that he was a child prodigy... | Question: During what years did Chopin receive instruction from Żywny? Question: Who was Frédéric's first professional teacher in music? Question: Who was Chopin's initial piano teacher? Question: What is the name of Chopin's first music teacher that was not an amateur musician? Question: Who was Chopin's earliest pie... |
gq: In 1817 the Saxon Palace was requisitioned by Warsaw's Russian governor for military use, and the Warsaw Lyceum was reestablished in the Kazimierz Palace (today the rectorate of Warsaw University). Fryderyk and his family moved to a building, which still survives, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace. During this perio... | Question: In what year was the Saxon Palace taken by the Russian governor for use regarding the military? Question: The Saxon Palace was taken over for military use in what year? Question: What building was Frédéric's new home adjacent to? Question: The Warsaw Lyceum was moved to where? Question: What establishment tod... |
gq: From September 1823 to 1826 Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year. In the autumn of 1826 he began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass and... | Question: During what years did Frédéric visit the Warsaw Lyceum for lessons? Question: Who taught Chopin to play the organ? Question: Who gave Chopin instruction on how to play the organ? Question: Who was Frédéric a student of involving music theory starting in 1826? Question: Chopin had three years of lessons with w... |
gq: During 1824–28 Chopin spent his vacations away from Warsaw, at a number of locales.[n 4] In 1824 and 1825, at Szafarnia, he was a guest of Dominik Dziewanowski, the father of a schoolmate. Here for the first time he encountered Polish rural folk music. His letters home from Szafarnia (to which he gave the title "Th... | Question: In which village did Frédéric first experience rural Polish folk music? Question: Where did Chopin spend his vacation in 1824 and 1825? Question: Who was Frédéric a guest of during his visit of Szafarnia in 1824 and 1825? Question: During his vacation in 1824 and 1825 who did Chopin spend his vacation with? Q... |
gq: In 1827, soon after the death of Chopin's youngest sister Emilia, the family moved from the Warsaw University building, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace, to lodgings just across the street from the university, in the south annex of the Krasiński Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście,[n 5] where Chopin lived until he le... | Question: During what year did Frédéric's youngest sister, Emilia, pass away? Question: What year did Chopin's sister Emilia die? Question: Who in Chopin's family died shortly before they moved in 1827? Question: What street did Frédéric's family move to after the death of his youngest sister? Question: What year did F... |
gq: Four boarders at his parents' apartments became Chopin's intimates: Tytus Woyciechowski, Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki, Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana; the latter two would become part of his Paris milieu. He was friendly with members of Warsaw's young artistic and intellectual world, including Fontana, Józef Bohda... | Question: How many boarders of his family's boarding house became intimate friends with Chopin? Question: What four boys from his family's boarding house became friends with Chopin? Question: To whom did Chopin reveal in letters which parts of his work were about the singing student he was infatuated with? Question: Of... |
gq: In September 1828 Chopin, while still a student, visited Berlin with a family friend, zoologist Feliks Jarocki, enjoying operas directed by Gaspare Spontini and attending concerts by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Felix Mendelssohn and other celebrities. On an 1829 return trip to Berlin, he was a guest of Prince Antoni Rad... | Question: When did Chopin visit Berlin? Question: What year did Chopin visit Berlin while still a student? Question: What did the person who Chopin went with to Berlin do for his work? Question: Who did Frédéric visit Berlin with in September 1828? Question: With whom did Chopin go to Berlin? Question: Who did Chopin g... |
gq: Back in Warsaw that year, Chopin heard Niccolò Paganini play the violin, and composed a set of variations, Souvenir de Paganini. It may have been this experience which encouraged him to commence writing his first Études, (1829–32), exploring the capacities of his own instrument. On 11 August, three weeks after comp... | Question: Who did Chopin hear play violin in 1829 that prompted him to write a composisition? Question: What did Frédéric compose after hearing Niccolò Paganini perform on the violin? Question: What did Chopin compose after hearing Niccolo Paganini? Question: During what month did Frédéric make his first appearance in ... |
gq: Chopin's successes as a composer and performer opened the door to western Europe for him, and on 2 November 1830, he set out, in the words of Zdzisław Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever." With Woyciechowski, he headed for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. Later that mont... | Question: What geographicla region was opened for Chopin due to his composing and performances? Question: On what date did Frédéric begin his journey into Western Europe? Question: What year did the uprising begin in Warsaw? Question: What historian commented that the events involving Frédéric's friend in Poland contri... |
gq: Chopin arrived in Paris in late September 1831; he would never return to Poland, thus becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. In France he used the French versions of his given names, and after receiving French citizenship in 1835, he travelled on a French passport. However, Chopin remained... | Question: When did Chopin reach Paris? Question: After 1831, what country did Chopin never return to? Question: What event was Frédéric a part of when he arrived in Paris during the later part of September in 1831? Question: What nationality is stated as the one Frédéric felt most identified by? Question: By not going ... |
gq: In Paris, Chopin encountered artists and other distinguished figures, and found many opportunities to exercise his talents and achieve celebrity. During his years in Paris he was to become acquainted with, among many others, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Ferdinand Hiller, Heinrich Heine, Eugène Delacroix, and Alfred... | Question: In what city did Frédéric achieve celebrity status? Question: What people did Chopin meet while in Paris? Question: Who was the principal of the Polish Literary Society that Frédéric became acquainted with? Question: What poet did Chopin use verses from for songs? Question: What was the name of the poet Chopi... |
gq: Two Polish friends in Paris were also to play important roles in Chopin's life there. His fellow student at the Warsaw Conservatory, Julian Fontana, had originally tried unsuccessfully to establish himself in England; Albert Grzymała, who in Paris became a wealthy financier and society figure, often acted as Chopin... | Question: What nationality were the two friends who served as a pivotal influence in Frédéric's life while in Paris? Question: Where were Chopin and Fontana students together? Question: Which friend of Frédéric failed to achieve success in England? Question: Who is stated as a jack of all trades in service to Frédéric?... |
gq: At the end of 1831, Chopin received the first major endorsement from an outstanding contemporary when Robert Schumann, reviewing the Op. 2 Variations in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (his first published article on music), declared: "Hats off, gentlemen! A genius." On 26 February 1832 Chopin gave a debut Pari... | Question: When did Chopin receive his first major endorsement from Robert Schumann? Question: Who gave Frédéric his first significant public approval in regards to his compositions? Question: From whom did Chopin receive his first big endorsement? Question: On what date did Frédéric give his first performance at the Sa... |
gq: Chopin seldom performed publicly in Paris. In later years he generally gave a single annual concert at the Salle Pleyel, a venue that seated three hundred. He played more frequently at salons, but preferred playing at his own Paris apartment for small groups of friends. The musicologist Arthur Hedley has observed t... | Question: Chopin gave a yearly performance where? Question: What was Frédéric's favorite environment to perform in? Question: Where did Chopin prefer to play for people? Question: On March 23, 1833, who headlined and performed with Chopin at a concert? Question: What instrument did Frédéric play in a performance on 23 ... |
gq: In the spring of 1834, Chopin attended the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in Aix-la-Chapelle with Hiller, and it was there that Chopin met Felix Mendelssohn. After the festival, the three visited Düsseldorf, where Mendelssohn had been appointed musical director. They spent what Mendelssohn described as "a very agreea... | Question: Where did Chopin meet Felix Mendelssohn? Question: Who did Chopin attend the Lower Rhenish Music Festival with? Question: Who did Frédéric meet in the spring of 1834 at the Lower Rhenish Music Festival? Question: Who did Chopin meet at a music festival early in 1834? Question: Where did Chopin and Hiller go w... |
gq: Although it is not known exactly when Chopin first met Liszt after arriving in Paris, on 12 December 1831 he mentioned in a letter to his friend Woyciechowski that "I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc." Liszt was in at... | Question: Who is stated as being in attendance of Frédéric's first performance at the Salle Pleyel on 26 February 1832? Question: Who was the recipient of Frédéric's letter he wrote on 12 December 1831? Question: Which friend received the letter in which Chopin referenced Liszt? Question: What are the three names state... |
gq: The two became friends, and for many years lived in close proximity in Paris, Chopin at 38 Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, and Liszt at the Hôtel de France on the Rue Lafitte, a few blocks away. They performed together on seven occasions between 1833 and 1841. The first, on 2 April 1833, was at a benefit concert organi... | Question: What address did Frédéric live at during his stay in Paris? Question: When Liszt lived close to Chopin, where did he call home? Question: How far down the road did Liszt live from Frédéric during this time? Question: How many times did Frédéric and Liszt collaborate in performances during the years of 1833 to... |
gq: Although the two displayed great respect and admiration for each other, their friendship was uneasy and had some qualities of a love-hate relationship. Harold C. Schonberg believes that Chopin displayed a "tinge of jealousy and spite" towards Liszt's virtuosity on the piano, and others have also argued that he had ... | Question: What term describes the qualities of the relationship between Frédéric and Liszt? Question: Who did Chopin dedicate the Op. 10 Études to? Question: Who apologized to Chopin for adding embellishments to a musical piece he perforemed that was written by Chopin? Question: What three qualities of Liszt are stated... |
gq: In 1836, at a party hosted by Marie d'Agoult, Chopin met the French author George Sand (born [Amantine] Aurore [Lucile] Dupin). Short (under five feet, or 152 cm), dark, big-eyed and a cigar smoker, she initially repelled Chopin, who remarked, "What an unattractive person la Sand is. Is she really a woman?" However... | Question: Who was the host of the gathering where Frédéric was introduced to George Sand? Question: Who hosted the party whre Chopin met George Sand? Question: What is the name of the author Chopin met at a gathering put on by Marie d'Agoult? Question: What year did Maria Wodzińska's mother tell Chopin that he likely w... |
gq: In June 1837 Chopin visited London incognito in the company of the piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel where he played at a musical soirée at the house of English piano maker James Broadwood. On his return to Paris, his association with Sand began in earnest, and by the end of June 1838 they had become lovers. Sand, ... | Question: What city did Frédéric visit in June 1837? Question: With whom did Chopin go to London with in 1837? Question: What was James Broadwood's occupation? Question: What event occurred on Frédéric's return to Paris? Question: When did Chopin and Sand become lovers? Question: How many years older was George Sand co... |
gq: On 3 December, Chopin complained about his bad health and the incompetence of the doctors in Majorca: "Three doctors have visited me ... The first said I was dead; the second said I was dying; and the third said I was about to die." He also had problems having his Pleyel piano sent to him. It finally arrived from P... | Question: How many doctors visited Chopin? Question: What month did Chopin's piano arrive? Question: What month did Chopin's Pleyel piano arrive in Majorca? Question: What did Chopin compalin about? Question: How many doctors saw Frédéric by the 3rd of December? Question: What did Chopin have a hard time getting delive... |
gq: Although this period had been productive, the bad weather had such a detrimental effect on Chopin's health that Sand determined to leave the island. To avoid further customs duties, Sand sold the piano to a local French couple, the Canuts.[n 8] The group traveled first to Barcelona, then to Marseilles, where they s... | Question: What had a negative effect on Chopin's health? Question: What is stated as having a negative effect on Frédéric's health during this productive time? Question: Who did Sand sell Chopin's piano to? Question: Who did Sand sell the piano to? Question: What culture of French people did Sand sell the piano to? Que... |
gq: At the funeral of the tenor Adolphe Nourrit in Paris in 1839, Chopin made a rare appearance at the organ, playing a transcription of Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne. On 26 July 1840 Chopin and Sand were present at the dress rehearsal of Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, composed to commemorate th... | Question: At whose funeral did Chopin play in 1839? Question: Chopin attended the funeral of who in 1839? Question: What instrument did Chopin play at Adolphe Nourrit's funeral? Question: What piece did Chopin play at Adolphe Nourrit's funeral? Question: What did Chopin play at the funeral? Question: What event were ... |
gq: During the summers at Nohant, particularly in the years 1839–43, Chopin found quiet, productive days during which he composed many works, including his Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53. Among the visitors to Nohant were Delacroix and the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, whom Chopin had advised on piano technique and... | Question: What is the example given of a work produced by Frédéric during calm summers at Nohant? Question: Who were two visitors to Chopin while in Nohant? Question: Who wrote a letter on June 7, 1842 about a stay in Nohant? Question: Which of the two people that visited Chopin were tutored by him on piano? Question: ... |
gq: From 1842 onwards, Chopin showed signs of serious illness. After a solo recital in Paris on 21 February 1842, he wrote to Grzymała: "I have to lie in bed all day long, my mouth and tonsils are aching so much." He was forced by illness to decline a written invitation from Alkan to participate in a repeat performance... | Question: When did Chopin show signs of serious illness? Question: In which year did Chopin begin experiencing a serious decline in health? Question: Starting in what year did Chopin start showing evidence of very bad health? Question: To whom did Chopin write a letter on 21 February 1842 about his agonizing pain? Ques... |
gq: Chopin's relations with Sand were soured in 1846 by problems involving her daughter Solange and Solange's fiancé, the young fortune-hunting sculptor Auguste Clésinger. The composer frequently took Solange's side in quarrels with her mother; he also faced jealousy from Sand's son Maurice. Chopin was utterly indiffer... | Question: When did Chopin's relationship with Sand start to deteriorate? Question: What was the name of Sand's daughter's fiance that contributed to deteriorating the relationship between Sand and Chopin? Question: Whom did Sand's daughter Solange become engaged to? Question: Who was the fortune hunter engaged to Sand'... |
gq: Chopin's output as a composer throughout this period declined in quantity year by year. Whereas in 1841 he had written a dozen works, only six were written in 1842 and six shorter pieces in 1843. In 1844 he wrote only the Op. 58 sonata. 1845 saw the completion of three mazurkas (Op. 59). Although these works were m... | Question: How many pieces did Chopin write in 1841? Question: How many pieces did Chopin compose in 1842? Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1842? Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1843? Question: What was the name of the single piece of work he wrote in 1844? Question: What piece did Chopin compos... |
gq: Chopin's public popularity as a virtuoso began to wane, as did the number of his pupils, and this, together with the political strife and instability of the time, caused him to struggle financially. In February 1848, with the cellist Auguste Franchomme, he gave his last Paris concert, which included three movements... | Question: Plitical strife, popularity decline, instability of era and fewer students caused Chopin to what? Question: In what month and year did Chopin give his final performance? Question: When did Chopin last perform? Question: With whom did Chopin perform his final concert? Question: Who did Chopin last perform with... |
gq: Chopin's life was covered in a BBC TV documentary Chopin – The Women Behind The Music (2010), and in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television. | Question: What television station made a documentary on Chopin? Question: What television station released a documentary on Chopin? Question: What was the name of the documentary released by the BBC? Question: What was the title of the documentary the BBC released? Question: What two people created a documentary on Cho... |
gq: Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry ... | Question: Chopins relations with whom have been fictionalized in movies? Question: What was the name of the 1945 movie released about Chopin? Question: What 1945 film was a fictionalized accounting of the relationship between Chopin and Sand? Question: What is the name of the actor who received and Oscar nomination for... |
gq: Possibly the first venture into fictional treatments of Chopin's life was a fanciful operatic version of some of its events. Chopin was written by Giacomo Orefice and produced in Milan in 1901. All the music is derived from that of Chopin. | Question: What is thought to be the first fictionalized work about Chopin? Question: What style is the fictionalized "Chopin" in? Question: Who is responsible for the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life? Question: Who wrote the fictionalized "Chopin?" Question: Where was the first fictionalized account of Chop... |
gq: Chopin has figured extensively in Polish literature, both in serious critical studies of his life and music and in fictional treatments. The earliest manifestation was probably an 1830 sonnet on Chopin by Leon Ulrich. French writers on Chopin (apart from Sand) have included Marcel Proust and André Gide; and he has ... | Question: When did Ulrich do his sonnet on Chopin? Question: Leon Ulrich wrote about Chopin in what format? Question: What is the earliest sighting of Chopin in Polish Literature? Question: An 1830 sonnet was written about Chopin by what man? Question: Aside from George Sands what two French authors have written about ... |
gq: Numerous recordings of Chopin's works are available. On the occasion of the composer's bicentenary, the critics of The New York Times recommended performances by the following contemporary pianists (among many others): Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emanuel Ax, Evgeny Kissin, Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini ... | Question: On Chopin's 200th anniversary critics of what publication made recommendations on recordings of Chopin's work? Question: Upon Chopin's bicentenary, who recommended a list of who should perform Chopin? Question: Who organizes the Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin for notable Chopin recordings? Question: What i... |
gq: The British Library notes that "Chopin's works have been recorded by all the great pianists of the recording era." The earliest recording was an 1895 performance by Paul Pabst of the Nocturne in E major Op. 62 No. 2. The British Library site makes available a number of historic recordings, including some by Alfred ... | Question: What has stated that every pianist in the recording era has used Chopin's music? Question: What year was the earliest Chopin recording created? Question: When did Pabst record his Chopin performance? Question: Who played the earlier known recording of Chopin's work? Question: What is the title of the earliest... |
gq: Chopin's music remains very popular and is regularly performed, recorded and broadcast worldwide. The world's oldest monographic music competition, the International Chopin Piano Competition, founded in 1927, is held every five years in Warsaw. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland lists on its website over eight... | Question: What is the world's oldest monographic music competition? Question: What is the name of the oldest music essay competition? Question: What year was the International Chopin Piano Competition founded? Question: When was the International Chopin Piano Competition established? Question: How often is the Internat... |
gq: Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides. | Question: What year was the Chopiniana released? Question: What is the name of the ballet that included Chopin's work? Question: Which 1909 ballet used Chopin's music? Question: Who choreographed a ballet which included Chopin's work? Question: Who choreographed Chopiniana? Question: Who orchestrated Chopiniana? Questi... |
gq: In April, during the Revolution of 1848 in Paris, he left for London, where he performed at several concerts and at numerous receptions in great houses. This tour was suggested to him by his Scottish pupil Jane Stirling and her elder sister. Stirling also made all the logistical arrangements and provided much of th... | Question: What was happening in April 1848 in Paris? Question: Where did Chopin head to during the Revolution of 1848? Question: Where did Chopin go in the spring of 1848? Question: What was Jane Stirling's national heritage? Question: Who provided the majority of funds for his concert tour in London? Question: What tw... |
gq: In London Chopin took lodgings at Dover Street, where the firm of Broadwood provided him with a grand piano. At his first engagement, on 15 May at Stafford House, the audience included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The Prince, who was himself a talented musician, moved close to the keyboard to view Chopin's tec... | Question: Where did Chopin stay while in London? Question: What steet did Chopin stay on in London? Question: What company provided Chopin with a piano while in London? Question: What did Broadway provide for Chopin? Question: Where was Chopin's initial performance? Question: What two notable guests were present during... |
gq: In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this cou... | Question: Where did Jane Stirling invite Chopin? Question: Where was Chopin invited to in late summer? Question: What city did Chopin perform at on September 27? Question: What doctor was with Chopin when he wrote out his will? Question: What did Chopin write while staying with Doctor Adam Łyszczyński? |
gq: Chopin made his last public appearance on a concert platform at London's Guildhall on 16 November 1848, when, in a final patriotic gesture, he played for the benefit of Polish refugees. By this time he was very seriously ill, weighing under 99 pounds (i.e. less than 45 kg), and his doctors were aware that his sickn... | Question: Where was Chopin's last public performance? Question: Where was Chopin's last public performance? Question: When did Chopin last appear in public? Question: Who were the beneficiaries of his last public concert? Question: What was the diagnosis of Chopin's health condition at this time? |
gq: At the end of November, Chopin returned to Paris. He passed the winter in unremitting illness, but gave occasional lessons and was visited by friends, including Delacroix and Franchomme. Occasionally he played, or accompanied the singing of Delfina Potocka, for his friends. During the summer of 1849, his friends fo... | Question: When did Chopin return to Paris? Question: Who did Chopin play for while she sang? Question: Chopin accompanied which singer for friends? Question: In 1849 where did Chopin live? Question: Where did his friends found Chopin an apartment in 1849? Question: Who was anonymously paying for Chopin's apartment? Que... |
gq: With his health further deteriorating, Chopin desired to have a family member with him. In June 1849 his sister Ludwika came to Paris with her husband and daughter, and in September, supported by a loan from Jane Stirling, he took an apartment at Place Vendôme 12. After 15 October, when his condition took a marked ... | Question: When did his sister come to stay with Chopin? Question: Which family member came to Paris in June 1849? Question: Who accompanied Chopin's sister to Paris? Question: Who gave Chopin a loan in September for an apartment? Question: In September 1849 where did Chopin take up residence? Question: What did Parisia... |
gq: Some of his friends provided music at his request; among them, Potocka sang and Franchomme played the cello. Chopin requested that his body be opened after death (for fear of being buried alive) and his heart returned to Warsaw where it rests at the Church of the Holy Cross. He also bequeathed his unfinished notes ... | Question: Why did Chopin request being cut open after his death? Question: Why did Chopin want his body opened when he died? Question: What did Chopin reply to the doctor when asked is he was suffering? Question: Who made Chopin's death mask? Question: What did Solange's husband make hours after Chopin's death along wi... |
gq: Chopin's disease and the cause of his death have since been a matter of discussion. His death certificate gave the cause as tuberculosis, and his physician, Jean Cruveilhier, was then the leading French authority on this disease. Other possibilities have been advanced including cystic fibrosis, cirrhosis and alpha ... | Question: What is listed as Chopin's official cause of death? Question: What was the cause of death on Chopin's death certificate? Question: What was the name of Chopin's doctor? Question: Who was Chopin's physician? Question: Other possiblities for Chopin's death include cirrhosis, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and ... |
gq: The funeral, held at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, was delayed almost two weeks, until 30 October. Entrance was restricted to ticket holders as many people were expected to attend. Over 3,000 people arrived without invitations, from as far as London, Berlin and Vienna, and were excluded. | Question: Where was Chopin's funeral held? Question: Where was Chopin's funeral held? Question: How long was Chopin's funeral delayed? Question: How long was Chopin's funeral delayed? Question: How many people arrived for Chopin's funeral? Question: How many people arrived without an invitation? |
gq: Mozart's Requiem was sung at the funeral; the soloists were the soprano Jeanne-Anais Castellan, the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, the tenor Alexis Dupont, and the bass Luigi Lablache; Chopin's Preludes No. 4 in E minor and No. 6 in B minor were also played. The organist at the funeral was Louis Lefébure-Wély. The ... | Question: What song was sung at Chopin's funeral? Question: What Mozart song was sung at Chopin's funeral? Question: Who was the organist at Chopin's funeral? Question: Who was the organist for Chopin's funeral? Question: Which cemetery was Chopin buried in? Question: Who led Chopin's funeral procession? Question: Who ... |
gq: Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger. The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. Ludwika took Chop... | Question: What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone? Question: Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone? Question: Who designed Chopin's tombstone? Question: How much did Chopin's funeral cost? Question: How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost? Question: Who paid for Chopin's funeral? Question: Who paid ... |
gq: Over 230 works of Chopin survive; some compositions from early childhood have been lost. All his known works involve the piano, and only a few range beyond solo piano music, as either piano concertos, songs or chamber music. | Question: How many of Chopin's works still exist? Question: How many Chopin pieces are known to have survived? Question: All of his pieces include what instrument? Question: Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what? |
gq: Chopin was educated in the tradition of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Clementi; he used Clementi's piano method with his own students. He was also influenced by Hummel's development of virtuoso, yet Mozartian, piano technique. He cited Bach and Mozart as the two most important composers in shaping his musical outloo... | Question: Chopin looked to Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi and who for his own music education? Question: Whose piano method did Chopin teach his students? Question: Whose piano method did Chopin use with his students? Question: Who did Chopin say were the two most important composers in his own music influences? |
gq: Chopin took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by the Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades and scherzi as individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op. 28, published 1839). He... | Question: What new genre di John Field invent? Question: Who is credited with creating the nocturne? Question: Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces? Question: Chopin was first in writing what for concerts? Question: What musical concept did Chopin exploit? Question: What three other mus... |
gq: Chopin also endowed popular dance forms with a greater range of melody and expression. Chopin's mazurkas, while originating in the traditional Polish dance (the mazurek), differed from the traditional variety in that they were written for the concert hall rather than the dance hall; "it was Chopin who put the mazur... | Question: What did Chopin add to the modern dance of his era? Question: Chopin was credited for making what more internationally known? Question: Chopin's Polish dance music was developed for what type of hall? Question: What was Chopin responsible for making popular with Euorpeans? Question: How many polonaises were p... |
gq: Some of Chopin's well-known pieces have acquired descriptive titles, such as the Revolutionary Étude (Op. 10, No. 12), and the Minute Waltz (Op. 64, No. 1). However, with the exception of his Funeral March, the composer never named an instrumental work beyond genre and number, leaving all potential extramusical ass... | Question: What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered? Question: What descriptive name was Op. 10, No. 12 given? Question: What descriptive name was Op. 64, No. 1 given? Question: What is the only piece Chopin gave an actual title to? Question: The Funeral March was written as part of what piece? Question: How ma... |
gq: The last opus number that Chopin himself used was 65, allocated to the Cello Sonata in G minor. He expressed a deathbed wish that all his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed. At the request of the composer's mother and sisters, however, his musical executor Julian Fontana selected 23 unpublished piano pieces and g... | Question: What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus? Question: What is the last opus number that Chopin used? Question: Who was Chopin's musical executor? Question: Who grouped 23 unpublished pieces and published them as Opp. 66-73 in 1855? Question: How many unfinished pieces did Julian Fontana make into eight m... |
gq: Works published since 1857 have received alternative catalogue designations instead of opus numbers. The present standard musicological reference for Chopin's works is the Kobylańska Catalogue (usually represented by the initials 'KK'), named for its compiler, the Polish musicologist Krystyna Kobylańska. | Question: Pieces published after what year stopped receiving opus numbers? Question: What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers? Question: What is the current musicologist reference for Chopin's pieces? Question: What is the shortened reference for the Kobylańska Catalogue? Question: The ... |
gq: Chopin's original publishers included Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel. His works soon began to appear in popular 19th-century piano anthologies. The first collected edition was by Breitkopf & Härtel (1878–1902). Among modern scholarly editions of Chopin's works are the version under the name of Paderewski pu... | Question: Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin? Question: Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up? Question: Who released the first collection of Chopin's works? Question: What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966? Question: Who edited the Polish "National ... |
gq: Improvisation stands at the centre of Chopin's creative processes. However, this does not imply impulsive rambling: Nicholas Temperley writes that "improvisation is designed for an audience, and its starting-point is that audience's expectations, which include the current conventions of musical form." The works for... | Question: What is central to Chopin's process? Question: What is central to Chopin's creativeness? Question: Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"? Question: What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality? Question: Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how h... |
gq: J. Barrie Jones suggests that "amongst the works that Chopin intended for concert use, the four ballades and four scherzos stand supreme", and adds that "the Barcarolle Op. 60 stands apart as an example of Chopin's rich harmonic palette coupled with an Italianate warmth of melody." Temperley opines that these works... | Question: What does J. Barrie Jones feel stands supreme of Chopin's concert pieces? Question: What piece does J. Barrie Jones pinpoint as a great example of Chopin's palette? Question: What form does Temperley feel that Chopin's ballades and scherzos are based on? |
gq: Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes are all in straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda. The mazurkas often show more folk features than many of his other works, sometimes including modal scales and harmonies and the use of drone basses. However, some also show unusual sophistication, for example O... | Question: Which of Chopin's works shows more folk aspects? Question: What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in? Question: Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions? Question: What type of bass do Chopin's mazurkas exhibit? Question: What does Chopin's Op. 63 No. 3 have that is rare? |
gq: Chopin's polonaises show a marked advance on those of his Polish predecessors in the form (who included his teachers Zywny and Elsner). As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences. Unlike most of their pre... | Question: Chopin's ability to create an advanced polonasises surpassed even two of his teachers, Zywny and who? Question: What time are Chopin's polonaises written in? Question: Chopin's polonaise often have what kind of rhythm in their melodies? Question: Chopin's polonaises needed what kind of playing technique? |
gq: The 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character. | Question: How many nocturnes did Chopin compose? Question: Which type of Chopin's compositons were difficult for perfomers due to their middle sections? Question: Chopin's nocturnes were more structured than who? Question: What year did Chopin meet Field? Question: What is it about the middle of Chopin's nocturnes that... |
gq: Chopin's études are largely in straightforward ternary form. He used them to teach his own technique of piano playing—for instance playing double thirds (Op. 25, No. 6), playing in octaves (Op. 25, No. 10), and playing repeated notes (Op. 10, No. 7). | Question: What pieces of his did Chopin use to teach his technique? Question: Chopin often taught his piano technique using what form of music he wrote? Question: What form are most of Chopin's études in? |
gq: The preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as "the beginnings of studies". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather than Bach's chromatic s... | Question: What was described as "the beginning of studies" by Schumann? Question: What inspired Chopin for his preludes? Question: What piece of Bach's did Chopin take inspiration for his preludes? Question: Kenneth Hamilton suggests that the preludes may not have been meant as a group but rather as what? Question: Who... |
gq: The two mature piano sonatas (No. 2, Op. 35, written in 1839 and No. 3, Op. 58, written in 1844) are in four movements. In Op. 35, Chopin was able to combine within a formal large musical structure many elements of his virtuosic piano technique—"a kind of dialogue between the public pianism of the brilliant style a... | Question: According to music historians, which sonata is similar to German tradition and worthy of Brahms? Question: How many movements are No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58 in? Question: How many movements are in No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58? Question: Which movement was found lacking in musicality by Schumann? Questio... |
gq: Chopin's harmonic innovations may have arisen partly from his keyboard improvisation technique. Temperley says that in his works "novel harmonic effects frequently result from the combination of ordinary appoggiaturas or passing notes with melodic figures of accompaniment", and cadences are delayed by the use of ch... | Question: What likely arose due to Chopin's technique with keyboards? Question: Who wrote about Chopin's "novel harmonic effects"? Question: Chopin's chord progressions are similar in style to what other composer? |
gq: In 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, "One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition. In truth, nothing equals the lightness, the sweetness with which the composer preludes on the piano; moreover nothing may be compared to his works full of or... | Question: Who wrote about a Chopin 1841 recital? Question: What was Chopin's style based upon? Question: What writing of Chopin talks about everything about piano playing has to do with proper fingering? |
gq: Polish composers of the following generation included virtuosi such as Moritz Moszkowski, but, in the opinion of J. Barrie Jones, his "one worthy successor" among his compatriots was Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937). Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Isaac Albéniz, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff, among o... | Question: According to J. Barrie Jones who was the only true successor to Chopin? Question: Who was Chopin's worthy successor according to Jones? Question: Many people were considered influenced by Chopin's what? Question: Who was devoted to the music of Chopin? Question: Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher? Question:... |
gq: Jonathan Bellman writes that modern concert performance style—set in the "conservatory" tradition of late 19th- and 20th-century music schools, and suitable for large auditoria or recordings—militates against what is known of Chopin's more intimate performance technique. The composer himself said to a pupil that "c... | Question: Who wrote that the current large concert style conflicts with Chopin's preference of intimate performances? Question: What did Chopin tell a student is given up in concerts? Question: What did Chopin tend to avoid? Question: What has been falsely credited to Chopin? Question: Who wrote about Chopin's "chromat... |
gq: Chopin's music is frequently played with rubato, "the practice in performance of disregarding strict time, 'robbing' some note-values for expressive effect". There are differing opinions as to how much, and what type, of rubato is appropriate for his works. Charles Rosen comments that "most of the written-out indic... | Question: Chopin's compositions are often played with what? Question: In Chopin's music where strict timing is disregarded, what is it called? Question: What does rubato mean? Question: What type of Chopin's music had the most disregard for strict timing according to Charles Rosen? |
gq: Friederike Müller, a pupil of Chopin, wrote: "[His] playing was always noble and beautiful; his tones sang, whether in full forte or softest piano. He took infinite pains to teach his pupils this legato, cantabile style of playing. His most severe criticism was 'He—or she—does not know how to join two notes togethe... | Question: According to who did Chopin demand strictly sticking with rhythm? Question: Which student said Chopin made sure his students knew his legato, cantabile style of playing? Question: According to Friederike Müller, Chopin insisted his students have the strictest adherence to what? |
gq: With his mazurkas and polonaises, Chopin has been credited with introducing to music a new sense of nationalism. Schumann, in his 1836 review of the piano concertos, highlighted the composer's strong feelings for his native Poland, writing that "Now that the Poles are in deep mourning [after the failure of the Nove... | Question: Chopin was able to bring about a new sense of nationalism with his music because of his mazurkas and what? Question: Chopin was noted as introducing music to what? Question: Who wrote a glowing review of Chopin's love for his country through his music in 1836? Question: What year did Schumann review Chopin's ... |
gq: Some modern commentators have argued against exaggerating Chopin's primacy as a "nationalist" or "patriotic" composer. George Golos refers to earlier "nationalist" composers in Central Europe, including Poland's Michał Kleofas Ogiński and Franciszek Lessel, who utilised polonaise and mazurka forms. Barbara Milewski... | Question: George Golos references what two musicians when claiming Chopin's nationalism was overrated? Question: Who said that Chopin's familiarity with Polish music was more "urbanised" than true folk music? Question: Who said Chopin's works were modeled after Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Field? |
gq: A reconciliation of these views is suggested by William Atwood: "Undoubtedly [Chopin's] use of traditional musical forms like the polonaise and mazurka roused nationalistic sentiments and a sense of cohesiveness amongst those Poles scattered across Europe and the New World ... While some sought solace in [them], ot... | Question: Where were Poles scattered to? Question: A modern commentator, William Atwood, feels Poles not only sought solace in Chopin's music but also found them a source of strength as they continued to fight for what? Question: William Atwood suggested that Chopin's music wasn't purposely patriotic but what? |
gq: Jones comments that "Chopin's unique position as a composer, despite the fact that virtually everything he wrote was for the piano, has rarely been questioned." He also notes that Chopin was fortunate to arrive in Paris in 1831—"the artistic environment, the publishers who were willing to print his music, the wealt... | Question: What place was considered lucky for Chopin to have arrived at considering how much he charged for piano lessons? Question: Who said Chopin was unlike his romantic contemporaries Liszt and Henri Herz? Question: Arthur Hutchings stated that Chopin's lack of what made him special? Question: Who were two of Chopi... |
gq: Chopin's qualities as a pianist and composer were recognized by many of his fellow musicians. Schumann named a piece for him in his suite Carnaval, and Chopin later dedicated his Ballade No. 2 in F major to Schumann. Elements of Chopin's music can be traced in many of Liszt's later works. Liszt later transcribed fo... | Question: What was recognized about Chopin from his musical peers? Question: In what suite did Schumann name a work for Chopin? Question: What Schumann suite contained the name of a piece Schumann named for Chopin? Question: What piece of Chopin's work was dedicated to Schumann? Question: What piece did Chopin dedicate... |
gq: Two of Chopin's long-standing pupils, Karol Mikuli (1821–1897) and Georges Mathias, were themselves piano teachers and passed on details of his playing to their own students, some of whom (such as Raoul Koczalski) were to make recordings of his music. Other pianists and composers influenced by Chopin's style includ... | Question: What music did Debussy play a lot at the Paris Conservatoire? Question: Who was a student of Chopin's former students and actually recorded some Chopin music? Question: Who dedicated his 1915 piano Études to Chopin? Question: For what publisher to Debussy edit Chopin's music for? |
gq: The exact nature of relations between Tibet and the Ming dynasty of China (1368–1644) is unclear. Analysis of the relationship is further complicated by modern political conflicts and the application of Westphalian sovereignty to a time when the concept did not exist. Some Mainland Chinese scholars, such as Wang Ji... | Question: Who were Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain? |
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