Guide Note: Frédéric Chopin was a piano composer during the Romantic period, and is still widely referred to as a man who wrote poems with the piano, as well as technically the most difficult to play.
Fast Facts:
- Born March 1, 1810, in Warsaw
- Hailed as a child prodigy, he moved to Paris at the age of 20
- Found work as a performer, teacher and composer
- Involved in a volatile relationship with the French writer George Sand
- Died of tuberculosis on October 17, 1849 in Paris
- Xbox creates a game based on Chopin's death-bed dream
