Karol Mikuli
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Karol Mikuli, also known as Charles Mikuli, was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. His students included Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Aleksander Michałowski, Ciprian Porumbescu, J
Mikuli's grave in Lychakiv cemetery, Lviv, Ukraine.
Frédéric Chopin
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Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era
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…22, 1821, in Czernowitz, then part of the Austrian Empire (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to a Romanianized Moldavian-Armenian family. He studied under Frédéric Chopin for piano (later becoming his teaching assistant) and Anton Reicha for composition. He toured widely as a concert pianist, becoming Director of the…
Daguerreotype, c. 1849
Chopin's birthplace in Żelazowa Wola
Chopin's father, Nicolas Chopin, by Mieroszewski, 1829
Chopin, by Mieroszewski, 1829