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Life of Chopin

CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER III.
Chopin's Mazourkas--Polish Ladies--Mazourka in Poland--Tortured Motives--Early life of Chopin--Zal.
In all that regards expression, the MAZOURKAS of Chopin differ greatly from his POLONAISES.

Indeed they are entirely unlike in character.

The bold and vigorous coloring of the Polonaises gives place to the most delicate, tender, and evanescent shades in the Mazourkas.

A nation, considered as a whole, in its united, characteristic, and single impetus, is no longer placed before us; the character and impressions now become purely personal, always individualized and divided.

No longer is the feminine and effeminate element driven back into shadowy recesses.


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