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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: 53. Chapters: Frederic Chopin, Paul Tortelier, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Nadia Boulanger, Fromental Halevy, Michel Rateau, Jules Delsart, Hyacinthe Jadin, Hidayat Inayat Khan, Lucien Capet, Jules Garcin, Andre Navarra, Victor Mirecki Larramat, Adolphe Adam, Serge Collot, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, Yves Nat, Gabriel Tacchino, Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, Emile Durand, Antoine Francois Marmontel, Francois Wartel, Georges Mathias, Edith Lejet, Suzanne Giraud, Charles-Wilfrid de Beriot, Pierre Capdevielle, Henry Cohen, Marie-Leontine Bordes-Pene, Marguerite Long, Helene Fleury-Roy, Charles-Louis Hanon, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, Charles Tanguy, Maurice Gendron, Emile-Joseph-Maurice Cheve, Hyacinthe Klose, Suzanne Chaigneau, Gerard Causse, Jeanine Rueff, Charles Bordes, Aime Paris, Charles Dancla, Therese Wartel, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Michel Strauss, Auguste Mathieu Panseron, Solange Ancona, Georges Miquelle, Ignace Leybach, Pierre Galin, Jean-Claude Gerard, Henri Challan, Andre Bloch, Felix Battanchon, Jacques Fevrier, Xavier Leroux, Georges Hugon, Jules Boucherit, Simone Ple-Caussade, Emile Descombes. 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 performances. From 1837 to 1847 he carrie...
