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the man who made the piano weep, whisper, and gossip in polish.
means a 19th-century polish-french composer and pianist whose works redefined solo piano music through harmonic daring and emotional intimacy.
from born 1810 near warsaw, chopin left poland at 20, just before the november uprising crushed it, and never returned; his heart, literally, is entombed in warsaw while his body lies in paris.
heart burialhis heart rests in a warsaw church pillar
tiny catalogwrote almost exclusively for solo piano, no symphonies
death causelikely tuberculosis, probably worsened by pericarditis
george sanddecade-long romance with the cross-dressing novelist
for instance
revolutionary etude — written in fury after russia crushed warsaw, 1831
minute waltz — op. 64 no. 1, doesn't actually take a minute
funeral march sonata — the dun-dun-dun-dun played at state funerals worldwide