The Chopin Paradox

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Feb 19, 202100:07:06Arts

The composer Frédéric Chopin , whose first published music appeared about two hundred years ago in the 1820s, eventually wrote hundreds of piano pieces, many of them memorable and popular. The musical influences that str...

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