#Chopin music 1 hour serial number#

McNulty, who has restored and built replicas of hundreds of historical pianos in the past 35 years, says the new sound вЂњwill be within the confines, the expectations of the builder.вЂќ вЂњSo an opportunity to hear the sound of ChopinвЂ™s piano as he heard it when he composed is quite likely,вЂќ Laskowski said. вЂњWe hope it will sing for us again,вЂќ said Aleksander Laskowski, spokesman for The Frederic Chopin Institute that houses the museum. McNulty and museum authorities believe the current work will bring it as close as possible to the sound that Chopin heard. It had most of its iron wire strings changed for much stronger and tighter modern ones during renovation in the late 1950s that destroyed its tone and put strain on the whole structure. It was played, but treated well by Chopin's family and was not used for concert performances, also because of a failed renovation attempt. Texas-born McNulty says this is the вЂњbest preserved Pleyel piano in the world,вЂќ despite having quite a dramatic history.

Given the provenance and the good condition of the instrument, McNulty said it is вЂњpriceless.вЂќ It survived two world wars, including the destruction of the 1944 Warsaw Rising. The piano arrived in Warsaw in 1850 - it still bears the red customs seal of Russia that ruled Warsaw at the time. After Chopin's death in October 1849, the piano was bought by his Scottish student and friend, Jane Stirling, who then offered it to Chopin's eldest sister, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa.

#Chopin music 1 hour serial number#

Pleyel made the instrument, with serial number 14810, available to Chopin, already seriously ailing at the time, in the fall of 1848. His works are mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century classical music.вЂњWeвЂ™re very, very close to the character and the identity of this instrument when we put the correct strings on, everything else being in very good condition,вЂќ McNulty told The Associated Press on Thursday. Chopin invented musical forms such as the ballade and was responsible for major innovations in forms such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, Г©tude, impromptu and prelude. Though technically demanding, Chopin's style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than virtuosity.

A Polish patriot,Д¬hopin's extant compositions were written primarily for the piano as a solo instrument. In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances.

In November 1830, at the age of 20, Chopin went abroad following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830вЂ“31, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish 'Great Emigration.' He was born in the village of Е»elazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets. FrГ©dГ©ric Chopin (1 March 1810 вЂ“ 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period.