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Fryderyk Chopin, born in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw in 1810, was a child prodigy, applauded and sought after from the tender age of eight. He left Poland at a very early age and spent the rest of his life in Paris, where he became the idle of French high society. Nevertheless, he preserved an undying nostalgia for his native land: the songs and dances of his distant and beloved homeland which at the time was under foreign rule, resound in his mazurkas, in his ballades above all in his polonaises.
