The Study Of The Waltz Of Chopin

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), one of the most original artists the great pianist and composer in Poland in the Romantic ages, is the first real outstanding Piano-Poet composer. He created the most ideal keyboard style in the Romanticism of 19th century. The music of Chopin is introverted and is a subjective ethos, taking the grief color. He was engaged in more than ten kinds of music types in his whole life, among which he used small-scale forms to create waltz that have been divided into two sorts—one is to idealize the physical dances, and the other is to make the pure lyric poetry of the waltz form. The former viewpoint held that the waltz of Chopin projects the humor and thought of a composer. But the form becomes weaker while the content is superficial. His waltz is not so important as Polonaise and Mazurka originating from Poland ethnic music forms. His waltz doesn't posses deep thought contents and consummate gorgeous techniques as Ballades and Etudes. But the writer thinks that the former viewpoint is one-sided, which did not comprehend real value of Chopin's waltz, through study. From a new angle, the paper will re-penetrate its esthetic meanings and existing values on the basis of reclassification by the music styles of Chopin's waltz, which is of great importance to comprehend afresh the status of Chopin in the waltz's composers and his contribution to the waltz. The main body of this paper contains waltz's history, the analysis of the seventeen waltz of Chopin and the description of styles of Chopin's waltz. The paper tends to adopt the angle of waltz's history, to take the style of Chopin's waltz, the viewpoint of Schiller in Talk about the...