Music is often described as a “universal language,” and the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin used it with consummate skill and fluency. Chopin himself once described music as “the indefinite language,” “the manifestation of our feelings through sounds,” and “the expression of our perceptions through sounds.” His companion, the novelist George Sand, wrote that Chopin “made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.”
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