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Chopin A La Polacca!

November 19th, 2010 in Top Video Picks by | 4 comments

Chopin composed about 200 works. 110 were dances such as mazurkas, waltzes and polonaises. At the age of seven, he composed his first polonaise in B-flat major, and throughout his career he made the form exclusively his own, overshadowing the early examples by Oginski and Kurpinski. Chopin’s mature polonaises form a heroic national epic. In these works, Chopin’s patriotism envisions […]

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