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Release Date: Tuesday 9 September 1997
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Fryderyk Chopin was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw. His father Nicolas Chopin was French by birth but had moved to Poland to work as an accounting clerk, later serving as tutor to the Laczynski family and thereafter to the family of Count Skarbek, one of whose poorer relatives he married. His subsequent career led him to the Warsaw Lyceum as a respected teacher of French, and it was there that his only son, Fryderyk, godson of Count Skarbek, whose Christian name he took, passed his childhood.
Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66, Mazurka No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 7, No. 1, Mazurka No. 23 in D Major, Op. 33, No. 2, Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63, No. 3
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Prelude No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4
Prelude No. 15 in D - Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15
Prelude No. 17 in A - Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 17
Prelude No. 20 in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, "Funeral March"
Polonaise No. 3 in A Major, Op. 40, No. 1, "Military"
Polonaise No. 6 in A-Flat Major, Op. 53, "Heroic"
Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57
Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31