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Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.

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 Chopin
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
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To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
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Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
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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.
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Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
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If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
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The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart obvious nonsense.
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Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.
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My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
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