![]() ![]() While composing it, Chopin wrote to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski, saying, "Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. Schonberg, in The Great Pianists, writes ".the openings of the Hummel A minor and Chopin E minor concertos are too close to be coincidental". ![]() Another influence is apparently Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The piano concerto is dedicated to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, a pianist and composer whose playing Chopin admired. ![]() A typical performance lasts about 40 minutes. The concerto is scored for solo piano, pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, bass trombone, timpani and strings. 1" at the time of publication, even though it was actually written immediately after the premiere of what was later published as Piano Concerto No. It was the first of Chopin's two piano concertos to be published, and was therefore given the designation of Piano Concerto "No. It was first performed on 11 October of that year, at the Teatr Narodowy (the National Theatre) in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist, during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland. 11, is a piano concerto written by Frédéric Chopin in 1830, when he was twenty years old. Painting of Chopin by Ambroży Mieroszewski in 1829 ![]()
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