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Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
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Frédéric François Chopin
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
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