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Of his piano concerto, op.11:
Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes, I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
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Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
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Letter to Camille Pleyel:
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos... in this respect this is a savage country.
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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
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Frédéric Chopin
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Born:
February 22, 1810
Died:
October 17, 1849
(aged 39)
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