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1810–1849 France
Frédéric Chopin (1 March, 1810 – 17 October, 1849) was a Polish pianist and composer of classical music who lived in Paris from age 21. He wrote almost solely for piano and remains the most widely played composer for that instrument.
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.
Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes, I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat
I astonished Kalkbrenner, who at once asked me, was I not a pupil of Field, because I have Cramer's method and Field's touch. (That delighted me.)
Fingers of steel. Wrist of silk.
Nothing is more beautiful than a good guitar, save perhaps two.
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