together even on a postage stamp
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Chopin’s piano in Mallorca, Spain, where he worked on the second Ballade, two Polonaises from opus 40, and the third Scherzo
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„It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.“
- Frédéric Chopin
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Autograph partiture by the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin of his Polonaise Op. 53 in A flat major for piano, 1842. Heineman Music Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library department of music manuscripts and books.
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"To the question as to who is the foremost pianist in the world: Liszt or Thalberg, there is only one answer: Chopin."
— E. Legouvé in the Revue et Gazette Musicale, 1838
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Fryderyk Chopin Postcard - Zygmunt Badowski, 1913, Warsaw, Poland
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Lionello Balestrieri : Triptych of Chopin - Il trittico di Chopin, 1904
“It was … an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.” - Composer Robert Schumann
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He was extremely beautiful, just as always in the movements of the most everyday life, possessing something complete, something monumentally drawn… something which the Athenian aristocracy might have regarded as religion in the most beautiful period in Greek civilisation - or that which the brilliant dramatic artist plays out - for example - on classical French tragedies.. Chopin had just such a naturally apotheotic perfection of gesture, however and wherever I found him.
Cyprian Kamil Norwid, description of meeting a gravely ill Chopin, 1849, Czarne Kwiaty
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Chopin Dying, Lionello Balestrieri (Italian, 1872-1958)
"The Polish Countess Potocka sings a psalm at his dying request".
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“Fryderyk Chopin on his deathbed” (1849) by Teofil Kwiatkowski (Polish;1809-1891), watercolor and gouache on paper, National Museum, Warsaw
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