Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 Analysis
Frederic Francois Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland on March 1st,1810. Shortly after his birth his parents moved to Warsaw, where he grew up. While growing up people said Chopin was a sensitive and poetic child and he showed a passionate love of music in his early age and was even taught to play the piano by his older sister Ludwika. (Orga, pg.13) While he was being taught by his sister his parents started to see that he was very talented at playing the piano, so when he was around the age of six maybe seven his parents got him a teacher. His first teacher was Adalbert Zywny, a bohemian composer and is only known because he was Chopin’s composer. But when he was Zywny’s pupil he did not really do the exercises (even though later on in
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2 in B-flat minor is known as his funeral march and was even played during his own funeral. (Npr.org). Supposedly, when Chopin was writing this, Poland was uprising against Russia and he was upset for his family and friends having to deal with that, while he was out of Poland (Npr.org). It just so happens that the piece ended up being perfect funeral music with its simplicity and depressing tone. Throughout the song there is some dynamic change and dissonance but only enough for it to be noticed and the rhythm of the piece is really slow and doesn’t really speed up that much, because of all these things it really gives the piece a depressing feel to it when taken seriously. Throughout time this piece has been played at funerals, TV shows, and video games. When it is played in video games and some TV shows it usually used for comic effect, even if it is actually quit a depressing and sad piece. Chopin’s funeral march has a lot of different variation from different composer’s and one of the ones that is most mistaken as his original piece is the one that simply added vocals to it, this variation is sometimes mistaken as his on TV shows or video games. The entire piece was meant for solo piano, and two simple themes to it making the piece a combination of homophonic and
2 in B-flat minor is known as his funeral march and was even played during his own funeral. (Npr.org). Supposedly, when Chopin was writing this, Poland was uprising against Russia and he was upset for his family and friends having to deal with that, while he was out of Poland (Npr.org). It just so happens that the piece ended up being perfect funeral music with its simplicity and depressing tone. Throughout the song there is some dynamic change and dissonance but only enough for it to be noticed and the rhythm of the piece is really slow and doesn’t really speed up that much, because of all these things it really gives the piece a depressing feel to it when taken seriously. Throughout time this piece has been played at funerals, TV shows, and video games. When it is played in video games and some TV shows it usually used for comic effect, even if it is actually quit a depressing and sad piece. Chopin’s funeral march has a lot of different variation from different composer’s and one of the ones that is most mistaken as his original piece is the one that simply added vocals to it, this variation is sometimes mistaken as his on TV shows or video games. The entire piece was meant for solo piano, and two simple themes to it making the piece a combination of homophonic and