The mighty realm of Chopin far from his homeland. Eternal themes of art and life

The fate of Chopin is closely intertwined with the fate of the Motherland. Recognized as the best pianist in Poland, the composer had to go to Europe with concerts. He sat down: “... I don’t have the strength to set the day of departure; it seems to me that I am leaving to die - but how bitter it must be to die in a foreign land, not where I lived.

In 1830 - 1831, a national liberation uprising against the power of the Russian Empire began in Poland. Chopin wrote ... I curse the hour of my departure ... I cannot do as I please ... In the living rooms I pretend to be calm, and when I return, I rage on the piano ...

Deep thoughts about himself and his no longer existing Fatherland, his joys and despairs, his delights and dreams, moments of happiness and oppressive sorrow, sunny scenes of love, only occasionally interrupted by quiet and calm pictures of nature - this is where the region and the mighty kingdom of Chopin, here where he performs the great mysteries of art under the name of sonatas, preludes, mazurkas, polonaises, scherzos, etudes…”, wrote V. Stasov.

Program,

Chapter "The world of images of chamber and symphonic music".

Lesson topic "The Mighty Kingdom of Chopin"

Target: acquaintance with the genres of chamber music instrumental miniature music by F. Chopin.

Tasks: Educational: to instill love for the native land, the Motherland on the example of the life and work of F. Chopin.

Educational: introduce the era of romanticism and images of chamber music.

Developing: to learn to think about music, to be able to express their own position regarding the music they listened to, to work on the sensual performance of songs,

Know: highlights of F. Chopin's creativity; various genres of piano miniatures.

During the classes

Organizing time.

Listen to the music and determine the style of the composer, to which composer it can be attributed.

Slide №2 and №3 Listening to Waltz and Polonaise.

Guessed?

Find out from the description about the music of which composer, pianist - virtuoso we will talk about today .

He sang the soul of his people, created beautiful melodies and dances

He limited his creativity to piano music.

He is a classic of Polish music. His name is on a par with the names of brilliant composers, like Slide #4(portraits of composers on the board) Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky.

Slide #5- The work of F. Chopin is a huge world of extraordinary beauty. His wondrous, wonderful music, written by a great composer and musician. Sincerity of feelings - that's what matters! What can you tell about the work of Frederic Chopin?

Read paragraph 1 on page 98 of your textbook. What can be added? Slide #6

Fragment of the documentary encyclopedia "F. Chopin", work with cards.

Fryderyk Chopin did not write great works, neither symphonies nor operas, but how can this be the main thing? Every person is capable of freedom of thought, speech, feelings. Express it the way he wants. He was closest to the miniature genres.

Slide number 7(small pieces): preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas, sonatas. Each play, dance is a state of mind, even while living in Paris, he wrote Polish music. Almost all the dances written by F. Chopin were Polish, and the Mazurka was a favorite.

Of course, in today's world, listeners of classical music are beginning to understand the musical language of F. Chopin. As a sign of love and respect for the work of F. Chopin, the St. Petersburg composer Sergei Savenkov uses the melody of the nocturne and writes an amazing song to the verses of Tatyana Tarasova. The song is popular among children's groups, often heard on the radio. Slide #8

Performance of "Chopin's Nocturne" musicS. Savenkov, lyrics by T. Tarasova.

Slide No. 9 Chopin's music is permeated, on the one hand, by lyricism, the subtlety of conveying various moods, and, on the other, by tragedy and heroism. (p. 98, 2nd paragraph)

Chopin revived the prelude on a romantic basis, which is a semantic center that reflects a certain "movement and life of the soul." Slide #10

Listening to Prelude No. 7 and Prelude No. 20. Music discussion.

What image do preludes create? What does F. Chopin want to tell us, tell us? what does the music represent, what feelings does it convey?

Slide #13 Living far from his homeland, he always thought about her, all my thoughts, feelings, experiences are his music. In it one can hear pain, and suffering, and impulse, and the bitterness of loss, and love, and faith, and deep sadness. The tragedy of the Polish people has become my personal tragedy. There are circumstances in life when it is impossible to change anything. In a foreign country, he knew fame, respect, recognition, success, he was surrounded by creative people, he found love - isn't that what you say happiness ?! For an exile, there is no greater happiness than to be with the Motherland and live for it!

let's let's listen to performed by the outstanding pianist Svyatoslav Richter

Slide №14, 15 - Etude № 12 and Prelude No. 24 what unites these two different genres, what does the composer want to convey to us, what can be said about music? Slide #16

Slide #17 Dreamer ardent, noble,
Master of piano scenes
Folk melody poet -
All this is Frederic Chopin.

Listening to curly music,
I hear the splashing waves
And splashes of sunny May,
And October glass shine,

And the call of the Fatherland is harsh,
And the revolution is open.
Here the pianist frowned,
Entering "B flat minor".

Ringing a piano chord,
The foam wave is playing.
Influx witchcraft and strange
She takes over the room.

Spreading like wings, shoulders,
Like an angel, weightless and pure,
Soars the whole piano evening
Above the hall is a fragile pianist. Vladimir Efremovich Shostak

At the end of the lesson, you need to answer a series of questions

1. Why did F. Chopin choose the piano for his work.

2. Do you think that Chopin was a romantic, Why.

3. Did F. Chopin really leave the country when he learned about the Polish uprising?

4. What genres of miniature were close to F. Chopin. (preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas)

What kind of music occupied a leading place in the work of F. Chopin? (dancing) What distinguishes the music of Fryderyk Chopin, what is his music connected with?

What distinguishes the music of F. Chopin? Of course, the Motherland, to which Chopin was very attached, and his fate was closely intertwined with the fate of the Motherland. slide number 18

What a morning at home!

What meadows and forests

The dew sparkles with mother-of-pearl.

Native land ... Eh! Beauty!

It smells of wormwood, grass,

young green foliage

Ah, motherland, only with you

I am forever bound by fate!

Motherland, that's what every citizen should think about. Think about what your homeland is for you ...

Slide #19

Performance of the song "Spring of Russia" music A. Ermolova, lyrics by Gulevskaya.

Slide №20, №21, №22, №23, №24, №25, №26, №27

Crossword: "Chopin" - vertically. (Questions to consolidate the material).

Romantic composer of the 19th century, who wrote the music for the song "Evening Star". What title did Chopin get for his music? Chopin's favorite instrument. What kind of dance are we talking about: “Ceremonial ballroom dance - procession”? What kind of music occupied a leading place in the work of F. Chopin?

Slide #28 Here in the hall is Chopin himself,

And sweet songs captured

And sensitively catches the ear

Music long sound.

Piano like a white spirit

The melody floats

That joy in the heart pours,

It glows with sadness.

The melody floats...

And a light waltz blooms -

It cries, it laughs

It will ascend to the sky

That will echo -

love memory

Far from home. Etudes by Chopin

Chopin in any of our days
Easily waltz over the abyss
And proudly rules over it ...

(L. Ozerov)

The word "etude" is familiar to you. From the first months of mastering the instrument, musicians begin to play etudes. At first, quite simple. Then they move on to more complex ones. In French etude - study. They develop the musician's technique. Each etude is dedicated to mastering some technical technique: playing in octaves, trills, thirds, for example.

By the way, not only musicians are engaged in the study of technical methods. This is done by artists, chess players, and many others. Etudes of great artists often turn out to be not just exercises for developing a technique, but genuine works of art. They are exhibited in museums, they are admired. So in the work of Chopin, the etude received a new meaning.

With Chopin, the etude ceased to be an exercise. It has become a full-fledged artistic genre, like other concert works, revealing poetic images, thoughts, moods. From now on, etudes began to be included in concert programs as serious and expressive works along with sonatas, ballads and other genres.

His works in this genre, along with the works of Franz Liszt, opened a new, romantic era in the history of piano etude and piano virtuosity in general. In total, Chopin's legacy includes 27 etudes, two notebooks with 12 numbers each (op. 10 and op. 25), and three more separate pieces.

The fate of F. Chopin was closely intertwined with the fate of the Motherland. Recognized as the best pianist in Poland, the composer goes to Europe with concerts. Chopin could not make up his mind to take this step for a long time.

“... I have no strength, he wrote, - set the day of departure; it seems to me that I am leaving to die - but how bitter it must be to die in a foreign land, not where I lived ”.

And yet the twenty-year-old composer leaves Poland. At a farewell party hosted by friends, F. Chopin was presented with a silver goblet with Polish soil, which he kept as a sign of loyalty to his homeland.

When news came from Poland about the beginning of a popular uprising and its brutal suppression, F. Chopin decided to interrupt his concert tour and return to his homeland. However, relatives and friends, fearing for his life, dissuaded the composer from this step: let him serve the Motherland with his art.

"I curse the hour of my departure...- the composer writes in letters. “I can’t do what I want ... In the living rooms I pretend to be calm, and when I return home I’m raging on the piano.”.

He poured out his grief, anger, indignation in music. As a creative response to the events taking place in Poland (in 1831), such works by Chopin appeared as the famous Etude No. 12, called "Revolutionary", and Prelude No. 24.

Etude No. 12 (Revolutionary - “Revolutionary”). Angry protest and acute emotional pain that seized the musician when he learned about the suppression of the uprising that broke out in his homeland were reflected here with great artistic power. Against the background of formidable undulating - "whirlwind" - passages, passionate exclamations are heard - like proud calls to die, but not to surrender in a mortal battle.

When they subside, the brief C major coda sounds like a tragically lofty mourning for the deaths of the heroes.

At the last moment, a passage “flurry” sweeps through the entire keyboard again - like a rush of irreconcilable rebellious feelings. In its passionate emotional intensity, the "Revolutionary Etude" is akin to Beethoven's heroics, especially the finale of his piano sonata "Appassionata".

Etude in E major No. 3 (Tristesse - sadness) is a kind of "song without words". His melody is distinguished by depth, soft and soulful melody. No wonder there are transcriptions of this etude for such "singing" instruments as the violin and cello. There is also an arrangement for voice. Slow tempo, quiet sound, uniform, smooth movement of accompaniment give the melody concentration and even greater depth. Despite the major scale, the music has a shade of light sadness.

The melody that sounds in the extreme sections of the three-part form of this work, Chopin himself considered the best of all that he created. Amazingly tender and melodious, it is full of warm warmth - like an affectionate mother's lullaby with quiet, "lulling" swaying in the accompaniment.

And the contrasting chord-passage middle of this piece is like a formidable storm that has broken out or a terrible dream that has seized a person. The strength of the sound grows, reaching fortissimo. But everything is dissipated by the renewed soothing sound of a soulful song.

From the memoirs of the composer's contemporaries, it is known that this was Chopin's favorite etude. Once listening to how one of his students played the Etude in E major, Chopin exclaimed: "Oh, my Motherland!"

Every measure of Chopin's music is saturated with love for Poland. Separated for life from his homeland, he always remained a Polish composer. That is why, as the most precious relic, Poland now keeps the heart of Chopin, which beat for its native country until its last blow.

Chopin's heart was brought from Paris to Warsaw, to the Church of the Holy Cross, and it was carefully kept there for a long time. When the Nazis occupied Poland, Polish patriots secretly took out the precious vessel that kept this relic from the church and hid it.

The year 1945 has come. Poland became free. And again, in solemn reverent silence, the citizens of Poland stood around the ancient church. The heart of their beloved composer was returned back to the church and immured in one of its columns.

The Russian composer and critic Cesar Cui wrote about Chopin: “Chopin... was sick of the sufferings of his Fatherland, was sick of separation from his relatives and friends, was sick of longing for his homeland and expressed his sincere, deep grief in wondrous, poetic sounds. He called this heavy, mournful mood with one Polish untranslatable word “sorry”, which simultaneously means both grief and resentment..

“Deep thoughts about himself and about his no longer existing Fatherland, his joys and despair, his delights and dreams, moments of happiness and oppressive sorrow, sunny scenes of love, only occasionally interrupted by quiet and calm pictures of nature,- this is where the region and the mighty kingdom of Chopin are, this is where the great secrets of art are performed by him under the name of sonatas, preludes, mazurkas, polonaises, scherzos, etudes ... ”, - wrote V. Stasov, an outstanding Russian critic and public figure of the 19th century.

Questions:

1. What is the difference between F. Chopin's piano etudes and educational and technical ones?
2. How many studies did F. Chopin create?
3. What event is associated with the famous Etude No. 12 "Revolutionary" by F. Chopin?
4. What image comes to your mind when you hear Etude No. 12 "Revolutionary"?
5. Tell us about the figurative nature of F. Chopin's Etude in E Major No. 3.
6. What secrets of art and life are revealed when the works of F. Chopin are heard?
7. Which composer's music is in tune with these works of F. Chopin: P. Tchaikovsky? L. Beethoven? S. Rachmaninoff? E. Grieg?

Presentation

Included:
1. Presentation - 10 slides, ppsx;
2. Sounds of music:
Chopin. Etude No. 3 in E major (Tristesse), mp3;
Chopin. Etude No. 12 C minor (Revolutionary), mp3;
3. Accompanying article - lesson summary, docx.

Images of chamber music. The mighty kingdom of Chopin. Far from home. Instrumental ballad. Great things are born. Night landscape. Nocturne. Picture gallery.

Instrumental concert. "Seasons". "Italian Concert". "Space landscape". "Perhaps all nature is a mosaic of flowers?" Picture gallery.

Symbols of symphonic music."Blizzard". Musical illustrations for the novel by A. S. Pushkin. "Troika". "Waltz". "Spring and Autumn". "Romance". "Pastoral". "Military March" "Wedding". “I will shed tears over fiction.”

Symphonic development of musical images."Merry in sorrow, sad in joy." Connection of times.

The lifeblood of artistic images of any kind of art. The embodiment of time and space in the art of music, the moral quest of man. Originality and specificity of artistic images of chamber and symphonic music.

Prelude. Waltz. Mazurka. Polonaise. Etude. musical language. Ballad. Quartet. Nocturne. Suite.

The form. Similarities and differences as the main principle of the development and construction of music. Repetition (variability, variance). Refrain, episodes. The interaction of several musical images based on their comparison, collision, conflict.

Synthesizer. Coloring. Harmony. Lad. Timbre. Dynamics.

Program music and its genres (suite, introduction to the opera, symphonic poem, fantasy overture, musical illustrations, etc.). Pastoral. Military march. Lyrical, dramatic images.

Treatment. Interpretation. Interpretation.
Generalization of the material of the third quarter.

Program overture. Egmont Overture. Sorrow and joy. Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

The world of musical theatre. Ballet Romeo and Juliet. Musical West Side Story. Opera "Orpheus and Eurydice". Rock opera "Orpheus and Eurydice".

Film music images."Romeo and Juliet" in the cinema of the XX century. Music in national cinema.

Research project.

The following content lines are revealed: Program overture. Sonata form (its sections). Contrast, conflict. Duet. lyrical images.

Outstanding ballet dancers. Image-portrait. Mass scenes. The contrast of topics. Modern interpretation of classical plots and images: musical, rock opera, film music. Vocal-instrumental ensemble, choir, soloists. Vocal music. Instrumental music.

Topics of research projects:

Images of the Motherland, native land in musical art. Images of defenders of the Fatherland in music, fine arts, literature. Folk music: origins, directions, plots and images, famous performers and performing groups. Music in the temple synthesis of arts: from the past to the future. Music Serious and Light: Problems, Judgments, Opinions. Author's song: favorite bards. What is modernity in music.

Generalization of the material of the fourth quarter.

musical material

Prelude No. 24 ; Ballad№ 1 for piano. F. Chopin.

Nocturnes for piano. P. Tchaikovsky.

Nocturnes for piano. F. Chopin. Nocturne (3rd part). From Quartet No. 2. A. Borodin.

Ballad of guitar and trumpet . I. Frenkel, words by Yu. Levitansky.

Seasons . Cycle of concertos for orchestra and solo violin (fragments). A. Vivaldi.

Italian concert (fragments) for clavier. I.-S. Bach.

Preludes for piano. M. Ciurlionis.

Musical illustrations for A. Pushkin's story "The Snowstorm » (fragments). G. Sviridov.

Stay with me . N. Zubov, lyrics by NN.

Here comes the daring trio. Russian folk song, lyrics F. Glinka.

Symphony№ 4 (2nd part). P. Tchaikovsky.

Symphony№ 2 ("Bogatyrskaya") (1st part). A. Borodin. Symphony№ 3 ("Heroic") (4th part). L. Beethoven. Overture to the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila". M. Glinka.

Ave, verum. V.-A. Mozart.

Mozartiana. Orchestral Suite No. 4 (3rd movement). P. Tchaikovsky.

Egmont. Overture. L. Beethoven.

Sorrow and joy . Canon. L. Beethoven.

Romeo and Juliet . Overture-fantasy (fragments). P. Tchaikovsky.

Romeo and Juliet . Ballet (fragments). S. Prokofiev. Romeo and Juliet . Musical sketches (suite) for large symphony orchestra. D. Kabalevsky.

West Side Story . Musical (fragments). L. Bernstein.

Orpheus and Eurydice. Opera (fragments). K. Gluck.

Orpheus and Eurydice . Rock opera. A. Zhurbin, lyrics by Y. Dimitrin.

Words of love . From the movie Romeo and Juliet. N. Rota, Russian text by L. Derbenev, edited by G. Podolsky.

Overture (fragments); Song of the Cheerful Wind . From the movie "Children of Captain Grant". I. Dunayevsky.

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Municipal budgetary educational institution

Secondary school №50 in Novosibirsk

The Mighty Kingdom of Fryderyk Chopin

METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LESSON

Developed by: Gladkikh A. S.,

music teacher MBOU secondary school №50

Novosibirsk 2016

Plan - summary of a music lesson in grade 6

Lesson topic: "The Mighty Kingdom of F. Chopin".

The purpose of the lesson: Acquaintance of students with the work of Frederic Chopin and awareness of the stylistic features of his music.

Lesson objectives:

1. Tutorials: introduce the era of romanticism and images of chamber music; to help students feel the amazing originality, the subtlest poetry of F. Chopin's music, its connection with the national characteristics of Polish music, the historical situation of that time; to acquaint students with the works of F. Chopin, to find out the musical content of musical works;
2. developing: develop visually - figurative, logical thinking, the ability to analyze and synthesize, argue; to teach to think about music, to be able to express their own position regarding the music they listened to, to work on the sensual performance of songs;
3. educational: to instill love for the native land, the Motherland on the example of the life and work of F. Chopin; fostering a sense of citizenship.

Equipment: computer, projector, screen, board, piano instrument.

resource material:

1. Video sequence: a fragment of Waltz No. 7 by F. Chopin performed by D. Matsuev, Etude No. 12, Prelude No. 24 performed by S. Richter, a fragment of the documentary encyclopedia “F. Chopin", "Waltz a - moll" and "Waltz Es - dur, Mazurka in C major, Waltz in A minor, Polonaise in G minor;
2. Audio recording "My Motherland - Russia" from the repertoire of the group "Daddy's Children";
3. Cards for work;
4. Lyrics;
5. Portrait of F. Chopin.

During the classes:

1. Organizing time

(Give students attention to the lesson.)

Teacher:

Hello.

Attention to the screen!

(View video: fragment of Waltz No. 7 F Chopin performed by D. Matsuev).

II. Update.

Teacher: He was called the "piano genius", he was an excellent pianist, and he created all his works only for his favorite instrument. He did not write a single opera or a single symphony, but his waltzes, mazurkas, polonaises, nocturnes leave no one indifferent.

What composer are you talking about?

Students:

Frederic Chopin (attach the portrait to the board)

III. The message of the topic and purpose of the lesson:

Teacher:

How can you call everything that this great genius created if he is the king of his piano creativity?

Students:

Kingdom.

Teacher:

Synonym of words: powerful, significant, majestic?

Students:

Mighty

Teacher:

And now we formulate the topic of the lesson:

Students:

- "The Mighty Kingdom of F. Chopin"

The purpose of our lesson is to penetrate into the poetic musical language, the content of the works of this brilliant Polish composer.

Here are the lines written about the composer by the poet Lev Ozerov:

Does the waltz slide, does the mazurka rejoice,

Whether polonaise reigns, I'm right there.

Living rooms of Warsaw, St. Petersburg,

Paris, Vienna, Prague - my route.

And wherever I was, no matter how worried,

No matter what lot the earth chooses -

Does the polonaise reign, does the waltz slide

Whether the mazurka rejoices - you are with me.

With me you are in motion sedate.

Flickering music, light, dark.

And it is so conceived by Chopin,

It doesn't matter if it was yesterday or long ago.

IV. Related work:

Teacher:

- Fryderyk Chopin is the founder of Polish classical music. This is a romantic composer, but a special romantic. All his work is connected with Poland, its folklore, history.Chopin lived and worked in the 19th century. During his short life of 39 years, he created a large number of piano works that live in our hearts to this day.

Teacher:

Look at the portrait of this man. What do you think he was like in real life?

Students:

Good, he has a thoughtful look. I think he was a smart, subtle soul.

Teacher: It is impossible not to be surprised at the depth and softness with which the composer's face is imbued. He came from a wonderful noble family, was educated in Warsaw.

Teacher: Let's see what his life was likefragment of the documentary encyclopedia "F.Chopin",work with cards).

At the age of 20, the composer had to leave Poland forever, after the people's liberation uprising, in which he participated, was defeated. After a short stay in Vienna, he moved to Paris. Living far from his homeland, he always thought about her, all his thoughts, feelings, experiences are his music. In it one can hear pain, and suffering, and impulse, and the bitterness of loss, and love, and faith, and deep sadness. The tragedy of the Polish people became his personal tragedy. There are circumstances in life when it is impossible to change anything. In a foreign country, he knew fame, respect, recognition, success, he was surrounded by creative people, among whom were his closest friend composer F. Liszt, artist E. Delacroix, writer O. Balzac. In Paris, he met his love - Aurora Dudevant, known under the pseudonym George Sand. But all this did not bring him happiness. For an exile, there is no greater happiness than to be with the Motherland and live for it!

Teacher: Let's listen in performed by the outstanding pianist Svyatoslav Richter Etude No. 12 and Prelude No. 24.

(View video: fragments of Etude No. 12 and Prelude No. 24 by F. Chopin performed by S. Richter)

What unites these two different genres, what does the composer want to convey to us, what can be said about music?

Students: This music is courageous, angry, full of vitality, struggle. Music is revolutionary, impetuous, calling to fight. Here we hear a protest against the injustice of the uprising.

Teacher: The composer's boundless devotion to his homeland, his people, his struggle for national liberation inspired Chopin's work. In love with Polish folk music, he brilliantly used its wealth. Dance genres occupy a significant place in Chopin's heritage; dancing is one of the inalienable properties of the folk-musical culture of Poland. Polonaises, waltzes, mazurkas (in which the features of three folk dances related in nature - mazur, kujawiak and oberek) are realized, reveal the links between Chopin's work and Polish folk music in all their diversity.

(Listening to Mazurka in C major, Waltz in A minor, Polonaise in G minor)

Teacher: Tell me, what is more here, aristocratic sophistication or fiery animation?

Students: Different feelings are expressed here and different experiences and pictures can be imagined.

Teacher: Yes, Chopin has always been different. No wonder Svyatoslav Richter wrote: "Courageous, feminine, mysterious, diabolical, incomprehensible, tragic Chopin." But his love for the Motherland is unchanging! And for us, the Motherland is Russia.

V. Work on the song

Learning the song "My Motherland - Russia"

VI. Reflection

Teacher : Guys, tell me, what composer's music sounded today at our lesson? What "eternal" problems does the music of F. Chopin touch upon? What interesting things did you find out? What discovery did you make?

Now formulate and ask each other questions(work in pairs).Rate it. Give points. Calculate the total score - rate.

Thanks to all! Goodbye!
A piece of music by F. Chopin sounds.