Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Frederic Chopin was a very famous pianist who started studying piano when he was four, and played at a private concert in Warsaw when he was eight years old. At age 16 Chopin was already well known for his music, and at that time he was enrolled in the Warsaw Conservatory of Music. His teacher Joseph Elsner was said to have done a brilliant job preparing him for his life in music. His music, …

…life. When Chopin gave music lessons, he commanded as much as thirty francs per lesson, which at the time was a very large amount money. Chopin greatly influenced other composers, such as the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt, German composer Richard Wagner, and French composer Claude Debussy. As a pianist he created a style that dominated the entire second half of the nineteenth century and was not changed until Debussy and Prokofiev came along.