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The Angel Mother:

Not sure how I like this one, but I think I’ve just been staring at it for too long (ironically lol).

Masterpost of my other tgd boards (short rn, but more to come!!).

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I... uhh didn’t realize that was Drake until just now. Spoilers for ch. 990, kinda. Wow. I saw Coby but our friend X Drake was kinda in the dark here.

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Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op 23

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Chopin - Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 - Piano Classical Music Relax - Música Clásica Relajante Piano

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Sviatoslav Richter performing Chopin's Ballade No.1 live in Prague, 1960. 

Frédéric Chopin's four Ballades are one-movement pieces for solo piano, composed between 1835 and 1842 in various parts of France and Spain. They are some of the most challenging pieces in the standard piano repertoire. The term "ballade" was associated with French poetry until the mid-19th century, when Chopin was among the first to pioneer the ballade as a musical form. The influence for these four Ballades is claimed to be the poet Adam Mickiewicz. The exact inspiration for each individual Ballade, however, is unclear and disputed. It is clear, however, that they are a novel innovation of Chopin's, and that the Ballades cannot be placed into another (e.g. the sonata) form. The Ballades have also directly influenced composers such as Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms who, after Chopin, wrote Ballades of their own.

The Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 is the first of Frédéric Chopin's four ballades. It was composed in 1835-36 during the composer's early days in Paris and was dedicated to Monsieur le Baron de Stockhausen, Hanoverian ambassador to France, and reportedly inspired by Adam Mickiewicz's poem Konrad Wallenrod. Chopin seemed to have been fond of the piece; in a letter to Heinrich Dorn, Robert Schumann commented that, "I received a new Ballade from Chopin. It seems to be a work closest to his genius (although not the most ingenious) and I told him that I like it best of all his compositions. After quite a lengthy silence he replied with emphasis, 'I am happy to hear this since I too like it most and hold it dearest.'"

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Beautiful, Chopin can conjure many emotions with his music.