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Frederic Chopin (1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849), was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of
the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a
leading musician of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without
equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw,
which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education
and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month
before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.
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