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Chopin is the best French composer.
by maurycy 17y ago
Chopin is the best French composer.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoSometimes I wish that HN had a "+1, Funny" button like Slashdot does.
- proemeth 17y agoHe was Polish, despite his parisian history, hence his famous mazurkas.
- vixen99 17y agoTo be clear, leaving aside his 'passport' status, he had a French father and a Polish mother. And it's interesting that he made no attempt to ever return to Poland after he'd arrived in Paris as a very young man. I think the French and Polish can make more or less equivalent claims on him.
- msluyter 17y agoIt was a joke (I think); like saying "Mozart was the greatest Italian Opera composer." (Also true, imho).
- forinti 17y agoAnd the second best Warner Bros composer, just after Rossini.
- balding_n_tired 17y ago[splutter...] How can you have forgotten "What's Opera, Doc?"
- forinti 17y agoYou could make a game out of this: spot the composer. I've even heard some Stravinsky in a Bugs Bunny cartoon; it was something from The Firebird. They sure don't make 'em like they used to.