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He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.” Source
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More Polish Than Poland: Chopin and Nationalism
August 29th, 2017 
Awake Goy Frédéric [or Fryderyk] Chopin “is often spoken of as ‘the most Polish of Polish composers’,” observes Stephen P. Mizwa1, with Honoré de Balzac even commenting that the composer was “more Polish than Poland”2. There is an irony, then, in the fact that this child piano prodigy who would become one of his nation’s cultural heroes […]
