Julian Fontana

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Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 1810 – 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Frédéric Chopin. Born in Warsaw, Fontana studied law at the University of Warsaw and music under Józef Elsner at the conservatory, where he met Chopin. Fontana left Warsaw in 1831, after the November Uprising and settled in Hamburg, before becoming a pianist and teacher in Paris in 1832. In 1835 in London he participated in a concert with music played by 6 pianists, the others including Ignaz Moscheles, Johann Baptist Cramer and Charles-Valentin Alkan. In 1840, Chopin dedicated his 2 Polonaises, Op. 40, to Fontana. These included the "Military Polonaise" in A major. He took up a wandering life that included: - England and France (1833-1837) - Havana, Cuba (1844-45): On 8 July 1844 he played the music of Chopin for the first time in Cuba. His pupils there included Nicolás Ruiz Espadero. - New York (1845-51): he gave concerts with Camillo Sivori - Montgeron, Paris (1852) - becoming part of the literary scene and friends with Adam Mickiewicz. In New York, on 9 September 1850, Fontana married Camilla Dalcour Tennant (1818–1855), widow of Stephen Cattley Tennant (1800–1848), a merchant, and mother of Enriqueta Augustina Tennant (1843-1908) and four other children. Their son Julian Camillo Adam Fontana was born in Paris on 10 July 1853. Camilla died on 30 March 1855 of pneumonia, whi

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Julian Fontana - Complete Piano Works 1

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Julian Fontana - Complete Piano Works 2 (World premiere recording)

Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Hubert Rutkowski)

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太鼓の達人 オリジナルサウンドトラック「サントラ2008」

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Julian Fontana - Piano works (Vol.1) - Rutkowski

Piano Works, Vol. 2 (Philippe Devaux)

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Julian Fontana - Complete Piano Works 3

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Piano Works Vol.3 (Devaux, Acte Préalable)

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Chopin's Disciples Vol 5 (Hubert Rutkowski)

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Chopin's Disciples Vol 5 (Hubert Rutkowski) (AP)

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