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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
Composer
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Pianist
Virtuoso
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Frédéric François Chopin
Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
Fr. Chopin
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After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.
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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
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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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Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
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My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
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Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
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