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Ohlsson Takes on Chopin |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: John C. Tibbetts |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,157 Words, 13,025 Characters |
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The year is 1831. Frederic Chopin's passport description reads as follows: Age: 21. Weight: 97 lbs. Height: 5 ft 7 ins. Features: oval face, round chin, gray-blue eyes, fair hair, and small hands. Date of birth: March 1, 1810. Birthplace: Zelazowa Wola, a village near Warsaw. Current address: 27 boulevard Poissonniere, Paris. Occupation: musician and composer.
An unassuming portrait, yes. According to pianist Garrick Ohlsson, who is now partway through recording all of Chopin's piano works, it is hardly sufficient to describe this extraordinary young man who moved so easily among the greatest artists and writers of the Romantic era in Paris--Delacroix, Gautier, Berlioz, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Balzac--and who became the most popular of all composers for the piano. "Chopin was something o...
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...his world seems to slip from me," he wrote. "I forget things, I have no strength. I no sooner recover a little than I sink back lower still." He complained, further, that he no longer had the strength to play loud enough to fill even a moderately sized hall. Today, through the strength of a Garrick Ohlsson coupled with the technology of the compact disc, Chopin's music can fill all the world.
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