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ohchopin · 1 year

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Chopin's Birthplace ❄️ Żelazowa Wola, Poland

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning. . . without meaning, that is, except its own, a meaning in musical terms, not in terms of words, which inhabit an altogether different mental climate. . . If it could be told in words, then why would Chopin have found it necessary to tell it through notes in the first place?

- Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein at Frédéric Chopin's piano in Warsaw, Poland, 1959.

#bernstein #leonard bernstein #quote #music #frederic chopin #chopin #piano #pianist #classical music #poland #arts #culture

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chopinbabe · 1 year

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Chopin in a VID❤️❤️Can’t stop looping tbh

Feels like he is ALIVE, he is looking at you. 😘

#fryderyk chopin #frederic chopin #chopin #classical music #pianist #classical composer #warsaw #poland

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opera-ghosts · 1 year

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OTD in Music History: Important 20th Century pianist-composer Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) – hailed in some circles as the greatest Polish composer after Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849) – dies of tuberculosis at a sanitarium in Lausanne, Switzerland. A member of the “Young Poland” modernist movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century, Szymanowski's early works owe a clear debt to the late-Romantic German school (i.e., Richard Wagner [1813 - 1883], Richard Strauss [1864 - 1949], and Max Reger [1873 - 1916]) as well as eccentric Russian "mystic" pianist-composer Alexander Scriabin (1871 - 1915). Later on, however, Szymanowski developed an increasingly personal style which blended elements of free atonality / polytonality, French “Impressionism” (drawing from the work of Claude Debussy [1862 - 1918] and Maurice Ravel [1875 - 1937]), and Polish folk music. Indeed, to that last point, the establishment of an independent Polish state in 1918 inspired Szymanowski to consciously seek to forge a distinctly “Polish” style of “classical” composition – a daunting task that hadn’t been seriously attempted by any major composer since Chopin. Polish musicologist Aleksander Laskowski has opined that Szymanowski "ultimately succeeded in his goal of inventing a musical language all his own [...] His works were true and ingenious creations, and his oeuvre shows an incredible development from the Straussian and Wagnerian aesthetic, through an interesting and very romantic 'Oriental' period, and finishing with a nationalist period.” PICTURED: A publicity headshot of the middle-aged Szymanowski (photographed by the famous “Fayer of Vienna” atelier), which he signed and inscribed to a fan in 1931. Szymanowski has also written out a few measures from the opening of his folk-music-infused ballet “Harnasie," which was not publicly premiered until 1935. Autograph material from Szymanowski is exceedingly rare.

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postcard-from-the-past · 8 months

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Polish pianist and prime minister of Poland Ignacy Jan Paderewski

French vintage postcard

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polandgallery · 2 years

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Fryderyk Chopin Monument, Warsaw, Poland

■ Waclaw Szymanowski (1859-1930), the Polish sculptor, created his massive Chopin monument in 1902, before it was placed at Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. Various sources describe the sculpture as “Art.Nouveau”, depicting Chopin “sitting under a willow tree seeking inspiration from nature”, or “the stylized willow echoes a pianist’s hand and fingers”.

■ Icons of Europe has concluded that the sculpture more likely refers to Orpheus sitting under a ‘tree uprooted by the power of his music’. The Roman poet Ovid describes in his famous story of Orpheus and Eurydice:

“And list'ning trees their rooted stations leave; Themselves transplanting, all around they grow, And various shades their various kinds bestow. Here, tall Chaonian oaks their branches spread, While weeping poplars there erect their head.”

#warsaw #warszawa #poland #polska #chopin #europe #european #pianist #piano #polish #culture #Architecture #photography

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bartlomiejbara · 1 year

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Rzeszów 2023.

#podkarpacie #rzeszow #photography #poland #street #photographers on tumblr #streethunters #artists on tumblr #black and white #pianist

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mikesq10 · 3 months

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My Top 50 Favorite Movies

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The Pianist (2002)

Sometimes a film comes along that everybody needs to see and that is what The Pianist is. This moving picture takes place during World War 2 following Wladyslaw (Adrien Brody) a talented musician who's life becomes completely altered after soldiers raid his city. This man then has to resort to survival and live by any means necessary and with hopes to reunite with his family. Brody is simply fantastic in his Oscar winning performance and the director, Polanski who is Polish, puts a lot of pride in his filmmaking on full display. Regardless of what movie genres you're into, The Pianist is genre-proof and must-see material.

#the pianist #adrien brody #roman polanski #the oscars #poland #germany #world war 2

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suetravelblog · 4 months

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Chopin Piano Recital Chopin Concert Hall Kraków Poland

Frédéric Chopin Polish Composer and Pianist – pianobook.io Saturday evening I enjoyed a Chopin piano recital at Chopin Concert Hall. The modest hall is located in a part of Kraków new to me, but near Main Market Square. It was easily accessible via tram, and I’ll return to explore the interesting area during daylight. It’s rich in cafés, theaters, and music venues, and home of the Krakow…

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#Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum #Chopin Concert Hall Kraków #Cracow Academy of Music #Dr. Pawel Kubica Pianist #Etudes #Frederic Chopin #Mazurka #Nocturnes #Poland’s Fight for Independence #Polonaise #Traditional Polish Dance Music

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mdr8400 · 1 year

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Hania Rani

#hania rani #pianist #composer #poland

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patrickmhiggins · 2 years

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Chopin in Warsaw. @patrickmhiggins. #warsaw #warszawa #poland #polska #bnwcity #love #polishboy #photography #photooftheday #instagood #polskadziewczyna #w #photo #music #art #beautiful #concerto #travel #pianist #composer #statuephotography #statue #instawarszawa #warsawgirl #concertinthepark #city #wereinthepark #bnwphotography #chopin #europe (at Warsaw, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuH7-JI2rP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ohchopin · 1 year

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Fryderyk Chopin Postcard - Zygmunt Badowski, 1913, Warsaw, Poland

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joyfullybluefox-blog · 2 years

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#warszawa #warszawa_love #warszawacentrum #warsawcity #bigcity #oldtown #oldarchitecture #sunnyday #holidays #museum #chopin #pianista #pianist #photooftheday #phonephotography #photographylover #poland #polskajestpiekna (w: Warsaw, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chmh7l8Kw4-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#warszawa #warszawa_love #warszawacentrum #warsawcity #bigcity #oldtown #oldarchitecture #sunnyday #holidays #museum #chopin #pianista #pianist #photooftheday #phonephotography #photographylover #poland #polskajestpiekna

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chopinbabe · 1 year

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Visited Choppy in 2019 in Paris & Warsaw!!❤️🌹

1. Choppy’s grave in Paris🪦💐 🇫🇷

I bought him some roses🌹 Hope he liked em😘❤️

2. The Chopin Musuem in Warsaw! 🏢😳🇵🇱

His beautiful left hand🤲🏻

His portrait 😘 How is he so fine?😍

His piano! 🎹 I..er…really wanna touch it🤭

His handkerchief 🥵

I bought his little bust and his hand cast!!!😍❤️

3. Chopin’s heart in the Holy Cross Church! 🫀💒🇵🇱

4. Chopin Monument in the Łazienki Park🗽

I miss you everyday❤️‍🔥🥹

#chopin #warsaw #paris #frederic chopin #fryderyk chopin #classical composer #classical music #romantic period #poland #pianist #composer

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opera-ghosts · 8 months

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OTD in Music History: Important 20th Century pianist-composer Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) – hailed in some circles as the greatest Polish composer after Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849) – dies of tuberculosis (just like Chopin), in Switzerland.

A member of the “Young Poland” modernist movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century, Szymanowski's early works owe a clear debt to the late-Romantic German school (Richard Wagner [1813 - 1883], Richard Strauss [1864 - 1949], and Max Reger [1873 - 1916]) as well as the eccentric Russian "mystic" pianist-composer Alexander Scriabin (1871 - 1915).

Later on, however, Szymanowski developed an increasingly personal style which blended elements of free atonality, polytonality, French “Impressionism” (drawing from the work of Claude Debussy [1862 - 1918] and Maurice Ravel [1875 - 1937]), and Polish folk music.

Indeed, to that last point, the establishment of an independent Polish state in 1918 inspired Szymanowski to consciously seek to forge a distinctly “Polish” style of composition – a daunting task that hadn’t been seriously attempted by any major composer since Chopin himself, nearly a century earlier.

Polish musicologist Aleksander Laskowski has opined that Szymanowski "succeeded in his goal of inventing a musical language all his own[...] His works were true and ingenious creations, and his oeuvre shows an incredible development from the Straussian and Wagnerian aesthetic, through an interesting and very romantic 'Oriental' period, and finishing with a nationalist period.”

PICTURED: A publicity headshot of the middle-aged Szymanowski (photographed by the famous “Fayer of Vienna” atelier), which he signed and inscribed to a fan in 1931. Szymanowski also wrote out a few measures from the opening of his folk-music-infused ballet “Harnasie," which was not publicly premiered until 1935.

Autograph material from Szymanowski is exceedingly rare.

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majorhortonisonleaveinlondon · 2 months

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An updated (April 3, 2024 7:48am pst) list of WW2 movies and TV shows in chronological order

thought out WW2 -(Imitation Game 2014) -(The Book Thief 2013) -(The Zookeeper’s Wife 2017) -(The Pianist 2002)

1937

October 26, 1937 Defence of Sihang Warehouse (The Eight Hundred 2020)

December 13, 1937 Nanjing Massacre - (John Rabe 2009) - (The Flowers of War 2011)

1938

Fall of 1938 (Munich – The Edge of War 2022)

1939

Summer 1939 (Six Minutes to Midnight 2020)

September 3, 1939 King George VI first wartime speech (King’s Speech 2010)

September 17, 1939, Soviet Union Invitation of Poland (The Way Back 2010)

November 30, 1939 Soviet Union invades Finland (The Winter War 1989)

1940

April 9, 1940 Operation Weserübung -(April 9th [movie] 2015) -(King’s Choice 2016) -(Narvik 2022) -(War Sailors 2023)

April 27, 1940 (Into the White 2011)

June 4, 1940 -Churchill gives “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech (Darkest Hour 2017) -Dunkirk Evaluation (Dunkirk 2017)

July 10-October 31, 1940 Battle of Britain (Battle of Britain 1969)

1941

May 1941 (Call to Spy 2019)

June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa -(Fortress of War [The Brest Fortres 2010) -(Defiance 2008)

September 8, 1941, Siege of Leningrad begins. -(Battle of Leningrad [Saving Leningrad] 2019) -(Leningrad 2009)

October 1941 Battle of Moscow (The Last Frontier [The Final Stand] 2020)

October 1941 Battle of Sevastopol (Battle for Sevastopol 2015)

December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970)

December 8, 1941 Japan invades Shanghai International Settlement (Empire of the Sun 1987)

1942

January 20, 1942, Wannsee Conference (Conspiracy 2001)

February 1942 Battle of the Atlantic (Greyhound 2020)

February 1942 (The Railway Man 2013)

February 19, 1942, Bombing of Darwin (Australia 2008)

Spring 1942 (U-571 2000)

April 18, 1942 The Doolittle Raid (In Harm’s Way 2018)

June 4, 1942 Battle of Midway (Midway 2019)

1942 Summer Occupation of Jersey Island (Another Mother’s Son 2017 Prime)

July, 10 1942 Easy Company Trains in Camp Tocca (Band of Brothers 01x10 Currahee 2001)

July 21, 1942, Kokoda Track Campaign (Kokoda: 39th Battalion 2006)

August 7, 1942, 1st Marine Division land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 1 Guadalcanal/Leckie 2010)

August 19, 1942, Dieppe Raid (Dieppe 1993)

August 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad begins (Stalingrad 1993)

September 1942 Formation of Troop 30 (Age of Heroes 2011)

September 18, 1942, 7th Marines Land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 2 Basilone 2010)

Autumn of 1942 Battle of the Atlantic (Das Boot 1981)

October 18, 1942, Operation Grouse (Heavy Water War Ep. 2 2015)

November 8, 1942, Operation Torch (The Big Red One 1980)

November 10-17 1942 Vasily Zaytsev kills 225 German Soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad (Enemy at the Gates 2001)

December 1942 The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal is relieved (The Pacific Ep. 3 Melbourne 2010)

December 15, 1942, Battle of Mount Austen (Thin Red Line 1998)

1943

March 13-14 1943, liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto -(Schindler’s List 1993)

April 17, 1943 Operation Mincemeat (Operation Mincemeat 2021)

April 19, 1943, beginning of the Warsaw Uprising (Uprising 2001)

May 4, 1943, Final Mission of The Memphis Bell (Memphis Bell 1990)

May 15, 1943, Salamo Arouch and his family arrive in Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Triumph of the Spirit 1989)

May 27, 1943 Louis Zamperini plane crashes on a search and rescue mission (Unbroken 2014)

May 30, 1943 first All-American Girls Professional Baseball League game played (A League of Their Own 1992)

June 25, 1943, 100th Bomb Group flew its first 8th Air Force combat mission (Master of the Air: Part One 2024)

July 1943 -(The Tuskegee Airmen 1995) -(The Liberator Ep. 1 2020) -(Heavy Water War Ep. 5 2015)

July 16, 1943, The 100th Bomb Group bombed U-Boats in Tronbhdim (Masters of the Air: Part Two 2024)

August 17, 1943 the 4th Bomb Wing of the 100th Bomb Group bombed Regenberg (Masters of the Air: Part Three 2024)

September 16, 1943, William Quinn and Charles Bailey leave Belgium (Masters of the Air: Part Four 2024)

September 18, 1943 John ‘Bucky’ Egan returns from leave to join the mission to bomb Munster (Master of the Air: Part Five 2024

October 14, 1943, John ‘Bucky’ Egan interrogated at Dulag Lut, Frankfurt Germany (Masters of the Air: Part Six 2024)

December 26, 1943, 1st Marine Division lands on Cape Gloucester (The Pacific Ep. 4 Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika 2010)

1944

January 22, 1944, Battle of Anzio -(The Liberator Ep. 2 2020) -(Red Tails 2012) -(Anzio 1968)

February 20, 1944, Hydro Ferry bombing (Heavy Water War Ep. 6 2015)

March 7, 1944, Stalag Luft III Sagan, Germany, Germans find the concealed radio Bucky was using to learn news of the War (Master of the Air: Part Seven 2024)

March 24/25, 1944 Allied Mass Escape of Stalag Luft III (The Great Escape 1963)

June 1944 (Cross of Iron 1977)

June 6, 1944, 00:48 & 01:40 First airborne troops begin to land on Normandy (Band of Brothers 02x10 Day of Days 2001)

June 6, 1944, 06:30 D-Day landings -(Storming Juno 2010)

-(Saving Private Ryan 1998)

June 10, 1944, Easy Company Takes Carentan (Band of Brothers 03x10 Carentan 2001)

June 15-July 9, 1944 Battle of Saipan

-(Windtalkers 2002)

-(Oba: The Last Samurai 2011)

July, 1944 The Monuments Men land in Normandy (The Monuments Men 2014)

July 20, 1944 Operation Valkyrie (Valkyrie 2008)

August 12, 1944, The 332nd Fighter Group attack Radar stations in Southern France (Masters of the Air: Part Eight 2024)

September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines landed on Peleliu at 08:32 (the Pacific Ep. 5 2010)

September 16, 1944, U.S Marines take Peleliu Airfield (the Pacific Ep. 5 2010)

September 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden

-(Band of Brothers 04x10 Replacements 2001)

-(A Bridge Too Far 1977)

October 2, 1944 Battle of Scheldt (Forgotten Battle 2021)

October 12, 1944, Battle of Peleliu, Assault on Bloody Nose Ridge (the Pacific Ep. 7 Peleliu Hills 2010)

October 13, 1944, Rovaniemi public buildings were destroyed (Sisu 2022)

October 14, 1944, Erwin Rommel is arrested (Rommel 2012 Prime)

October 22/23, 1944, 2100 – 0200 Operation Pegasus (Band of Brothers 05x10 Crossroads 2001)

November 1944 middle of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest (When Trumpets Fade 1998)

December 16, 1944, Battle of the Bulge (Band of Brothers 06x10 Bastogne 2001)

December 1944 (Hart’s War 2002)

1945

January 2, 1945 (The Liberator Ep 3 2020)

January 10, 1945 (Attack Force Z)

January 13, 1945, Battle of Foy (Band of Brothers 07x10 The Breaking Point 2001)

January 30, 1945 The Raid at Cabanatuan (The Great Raid 2002)

February 14, 1945, David Webb rejoins the 506th in Haguenau (Band of Brothers 08x10 The Last Patrol 2001)

February 19, 1945, Battle of Iwo Jima starts. - (Letters from Iwo Jima 2006) - (The Pacific Ep. 8 Iwo Jima 2010) - (Flags of our Fathers 2006)

March 21, 1945, Operation Carthage (The Bombardment 2021)

April, 1945 (Fury 2014)

April 5, 1945, 506th Finds abandoned Concentration Camp (Band of Brothers 09x10 Why We Fight 2001)

April 26, 1945, near the end of the war in Europe (A Woman in Berlin 2008)

April 29, 1945, 45th Infantry Division liberated Dachau Concentration camp (The Liberator Ep. 4 2020)

May 2, 1945, Fall of Berlin -(Downfall 2004) -(Jojo Rabbit 2019)

May 1945 Battle of Okinawa -(Hacksaw Ridge 2016) -(The Pacific Ep. 9 Okinawa 2010)

May 7, 1945, Germany Surrenders V-E Day - (Master of the Air: Part Nine 2024) - (Band of Brothers 10x10 Points 2001)

July 30, 1945, USS Indianapolis sank. (USS Indianapolis 2016)

August 15, 1945, The Empire of Japan surrenders end of the War. -(Oppenheimer 2023) -(The Pacific Part Ten: Home 2010)

September 11, 1945 US Military search and Arrest Japanese Leaders for war crimes (Emperor 2012)

1946 April 29, 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (Tokyo Trial 2016)

#band of brothers #masters of the air #the pacific #hbo war fandom #WW2 movies

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