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Born in Zabrze, Poland, Krystian Zimerman won the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw at the age of eighteen. He worked with Arthur Rubinstein in Paris and has performed with with the world’s most outstanding conductors like Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Herbert von Karajan, Simon Rattle.
Chopin’s Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47, composed by Frédéric Chopin, dating from 1841, is dedicated to Pauline de Noailles. The inspiration for this Ballade is usually claimed to be Adam Mickiewicz’s poem Undine, also known as Świtezianka.
Ballade No 2 in F major, Op. 38, was composed from by Frédéric Chopin in 1836 to 1839 in Nohant, France, and on the Spanish island of Majorca. Robert Schumann, who had dedicated his Kreisleriana, Op. 16, to Chopin, received the dedication of this Ballade in return.
Chopin’s Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op. 52, was composed in 1842 in Paris and Nohant and revised in 1843. The work was dedicated to Baroness Rothschild, wife of …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330 / 300h, is one of the three works in the cycle of piano sonatas K.330-332. The sonata was composed in 1783, when Mozart was 27 years old.
Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23, composed in 1831 during the composer’s early years in Vienna, was a reflection about his loneliness in the city far away from his home in Poland.