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A moving film exploring the incredible transformative power of Chopin's Ballade Number 1, a piece of music that has cast a spell on millions of people around the world. Less than ten minutes long and extremely difficult to play, it demands extraordinary feats of control, speed, memory, power and dexterity. In this emotional documentary, two people from opposite sides of the world talk of its effect on their lives. Japanese teenager Momoka, still coming...
10) F. Chopin
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Warsaw and Paris were the cities at the heart of Frédéric Chopin's world: he was one of the first great piano virtuosos, and his piano music helped usher in a new romantic spirit across all the arts. Though he appreciated the sophisticated life of the French capital, the music, fierce and passionate, that grew out his love of his native land shook his audiences to the core.
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This installment of the Famous Composers series offers an introduction to the biography and work of Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin. The film contextualizes Chopin's early life as a child of musical parents, a Polish mother and French father. Chopin was performing and composing at a young age and became an accepted part of the musical world in Warsaw by the time he finished school at the Lyceum. Polish folk music was a serious influence...
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