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Frederic Chopin 1810–1849

DEATH OF CHOPIN, THE PIANIST. –The French papers announce this event as having happened on the 17th instant. M. Frederic Chopin died of a disease of the chest, at the comparatively early age of thirty-nine. The Athenaeum informs us that ‘His funeral obsequies were to be celebrated in the church of La Madeleine in Paris, where the Requiem of Mozart was to be performed, in accordance with his own earnest desire.

Musical Times, November 1849