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Chopin sails home from a miserable Majorcan break

On 13 February 1839, Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand came to the end of a winter break on the island of Majorca that they would never forget. On paper, the two were hardly a match made in heaven. Chopin was a natural introvert, whose emotional restlessness and passionate intensity were unleashed in his music rather than his personal life. Physically frail, the early signs of

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