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Thanks for an intriguing discussion which is thankfully free of musicological inflections. Chopin is a composer whose small corpus of works — moreover delimited by the piano — is integral to its property of being able to speak to so many people of divergent backgrounds and in unexpected circumstances.

Put another way — there is something authentic and personal about all of his “mature” work (whatever that could signify when speaking of the creative work of someone who died at 39).

As for your comment on the a-minor prélude, it struck me as odd — but sincere.

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