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Definition of Chopin

1. Noun. The music of Chopin. "He practiced Chopin day and night"

2. Noun. United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904).

3. Noun. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849).

Definition of Chopin

1. n. A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

2. n. See Chopine.

Definition of Chopin

1. Proper noun. (surname French from=French) ¹

2. Proper noun. Frédéric Chopin Polish-born classical composer ¹

3. Proper noun. (music) The music of this composer ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) A liquid unit of measure of almost half a pint. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chopin

1. chopine [n -S] - See also: chopine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chopin

Choloepus didactylus Choloepus hoffmanni Cholon Chomskian Chomsky Chomskyan Chondrichthyes Chondrus crispus Chongjin Chongqing

Chontales Chopart Chopart's amputation Chopart's joint Chopawamsic Chopin (current term) Chopra Chopsticks Chorasmia Chordeiles

Chordospartium Chorezm Chorioptes Choriotis Choriotis australis Chorizagrotis Chorizagrotis auxiliaris Chorizema Chornobyl Chorti

Literary usage of Chopin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas (1891)
"FREDERICK Chopin О get sight of Chopin one has to look through a thick coating of Parisian varnish. Contemporaries who have written about him, George Sand, ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"Schubert, the prince of lyrists—Chopin, the most romantic of pianoforte writers, Schubert rich with an inexhaustible fancy—Chopin perfect with an exquisite ..."

3. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"And when Chopin, after his arrival in Paris, conceived the idea of taking further lessons ... Chopin had formed his own playing, as he formed his own style. ..."

4. Music (1899)
"Let us begin by saying that no comparison is possible between Chopin and Paganini ... We now come to the parallel between Chopin and Paganini concerning the ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1873)
"Chopin was not displeased, judging by the motions of his head. ... How sorry Lenz felt for Chopin! He understood in its full meaning Liszt's exclamation of ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1850)
"At Paris, aged 39, Frederic Chopin, composer. Chopin was born in 1810 at ... Chopin played in public at Vienna and Munich in 1831. ..."

7. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"Her own health began to suffer under her countless cares ; and when the ignorant people who surrounded them discovered that Chopin had a cough, they, ..."

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