On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:34:57 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Chopin, I'm actually hard-pressed to come up with a song off the top of
>> my head - most of his works were piano IIRC, and I didn't play piano.
> 
> Chopin did not write songs:  mazurkas, valses, nocturnes, etudes and
> sonatas were his main output.  

Well, yes, but you know what I mean. ;-)

> You probably heard a lot of them, as well
> as the famous funeral march movement from his second Sonata.

Ah, yes, I probably have.  Though I prefer the one from Gotterdammerung 
or something like Saint-Saens' Danse Macabe. :-)

Jim

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