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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Frederic Chopin, Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz S owacki, Helena Modjeska, Jan Gotlib Bloch, Cyprian Norwid, Tomasz Arciszewski, Emilia Plater, Maria Agata Szymanowska, Joseph Samuel Bloch, Franciszek Chalupka, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Maria Kalergis, Antoni Malczewski, Dow Ber Meisels, Karol Mikuli, Joseph Perl, Zygmunt Krasi ski, Jonathan Alexandersohn, Bertha Kalich, Jan Rustem, Marcello Bacciarelli, Izrael Abraham Staffel, Aaron Walden, Marian Albertovich Kowalski, Lucyna wierczakiewiczowa, Delfina Potocka, Joanna ubr, Leontyna Halpertowa, Alexandre Okinczyc, Aleksander Or owski, Artur Grottger, Moses Levi Ehrenreich, Karol d'Abancourt de Franqueville, Aniela Aszpergerowa, Micha Drzyma a, Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Salomon Langleben, Nepomucena Kostecka, Isaac Gastfreund, Wojciech Gerson, Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga o kowski, Piotr Micha owski, Antoni Brodowski, Wincenty de Lesseur, Wojciech Bogus awski, Wanda Malecka, Narcyza michowska, Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, Aleksander Mycielski, August Witkowski, Wojciech Stattler, Moses Abigdor Lichtenstadt, Klementyna Hoffmanowa, Aleksander Bychowiec, Sielec, Hrodna Voblast. Excerpt: Frederic Francois Chopin (French pronunciation: Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 22 February or 1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French-Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano." Chopin was born in elazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his musical education there. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish November 1830 Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of the Polish Great Emigration. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public perf...
