• 1903 to 1910. Oscar Charles Chopin was born on September 24, 1873, to Oscar Chopin and Kate Chopin, a novelist, in St. Louis, Missouri. Chopin worked in the...
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    active in the community, where Chopin found, in the local creole culture, much material for her future writing. When Oscar Chopin died in 1882, he left Kate...
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    The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century...
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  • Harry B. Martin, who drew it through 1903, it has since been drawn by Oscar Chopin (1903–1910); S. Carlisle Martin (1910–1932); Amadee Wohlschlaeger (1932–1981);...
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    Chauvin (1881–1908), ragtime musician Kate Chopin (1851–1904), author of popular short stories and novels Oscar Chopin (1873–1932), newspaper cartoonist François...
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    use of slave labor, dated to between 1806 and 1813. Kate Chopin moved here with her husband Oscar and their five children in 1879. Her sixth child, a daughter...
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    Bronstein, editor (left Examiner in 2012) Herb Caen, columnist (1950–1958) Oscar Chopin, cartoonist C. H. Garrigues, jazz columnist (retired 1967) Howard Lachtman...
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    third cartoonist to draw that paper's Weatherbird, taking over from Oscar Chopin. He drew the strip (which continues to this day) from 1910 to 1932. Martin...
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    of them, by coincidence, named Martin): Harry B. Martin (1901 – 1903) Oscar Chopin (1903 – 1910) S. Carlisle Martin (1910 – 1932) Amadee Wohlschlaeger (1932...
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    George Sand (category Frédéric Chopin)
    years between 1838 and 1847, Chopin, were all six years her junior." (p. 32.) Yates, Jim (2007), Oh! Père Lachaise: Oscar's Wilde Purgatory, Édition d'Amèlie...
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    merely a formality, as the two papers had shared workspace for decades.” Oscar Chopin, cartoonist Elliott Roosevelt, aviation editor Judy Pasternak and Thomas...
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    Louis Post-Dispatch on February 11, 1901. Martin handed the strip off to Oscar Chopin in 1903. The Weatherbird continues in use to this day and is the oldest...
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  • artist (Tich), dies in a car accident at an unknown age. December 28: Oscar Chopin, American comics artist (continued Weatherbird), dies at age 59. "Rudolf...
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    most nominations (eight) without a win—albeit in 2003, he was an Honorary Oscar recipient. Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote...
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    author Kate Chopin. The house was built in 1897 by contractor Oscar F. Humphrey. Chopin moved to the house in 1903 and lived there until her death in...
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  • A Song to Remember (category Cultural depictions of Frédéric Chopin)
    and composer Frédéric Chopin. Directed by Charles Vidor and starring Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, and Cornel Wilde. Frederic Chopin, a talented young pianist...
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    Janusz Olejniczak (category Prize-winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition)
    (21 October 2024). "Pianist in Oscar-winning 'The Pianist,' dies at 72". Newsweek. Retrieved 21 October 2024. "Chopin in Jazz – Adam Makowicz and Janusz...
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    lessons for four hours a day until he could master passages from some of Chopin's finest works. At 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall, he lost 30 pounds (14 kg), dropping...
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  • featured the piano performance of Étude Op. 25, No. 11 (Chopin), known as the Winter Wind etude by Chopin, was not included in the soundtrack release. A soundtrack...
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    after the Warsaw Uprising. Szpilman began his study of the piano at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, where he studied piano with Aleksander...
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    many famous artists: composers (such as Frédéric Chopin and Gioacchino Rossini), writers (including Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, and Marcel Proust), painters...
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  • impatient to practice playing Chopin music on Oscar. When it came for him to do a recital for the audience, he threatened Oscar to play for him and fool them...
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    including Georges Mathias. Gösta Nystroem Gino Robair this teacher's teachers Chopin (1810–1849) studied with teachers including Józef Elsner, Wojciech Żywny...
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  • play on a grand piano in the house. The decrepit Szpilman manages to play Chopin's "Ballade No. 1 in G minor". Hosenfeld lets him hide in the attic of the...
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  • the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC,...
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    Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (14 December 1887 – 9 April 1963), an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and...
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    Lachaise include: Colette, Michel Ney, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Frédéric Chopin, George Enescu, Édith Piaf, Alice Harriet Blosse Lynch, Marcel Proust, Georges...
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  • Nominated 1945 The Poet and Peasant Nominated 1946 Musical Moments from Chopin Nominated 1954 Crazy Mixed Up Pup Nominated 1955 The Legend of Rockabye...
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  • Song Without End (category Cultural depictions of Frédéric Chopin)
    with Countess Marie D'Agoult, the mother of his children, when Frédéric Chopin and George Sand visit him. They tell him about all the things he has missed...
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  • Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year...
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