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56d3ad7a2ccc5a1400d82e2f | Frédéric_Chopin | Chopin's life was covered in a BBC TV documentary Chopin – The Women Behind The Music (2010), and in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television. | Who did a work for Italian television about Chopin's life? | {
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56cf4e5faab44d1400b88f90 | Frédéric_Chopin | Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Rous... | What was the name of the 1945 movie released about Chopin? | {
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56cf4e5faab44d1400b88f91 | Frédéric_Chopin | Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Rous... | What is the name of the actor who received and Oscar nomination for his role as Chopin? | {
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56cf4e5faab44d1400b88f92 | Frédéric_Chopin | Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Rous... | What year was La valse de l'adieu released? | {
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56cf4e5faab44d1400b88f93 | Frédéric_Chopin | Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Rous... | Who starred as Chopin in Impromptu? | {
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56d3ad1d2ccc5a1400d82e24 | Frédéric_Chopin | Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Rous... | What 1945 film was a fictionalized accounting of the relationship between Chopin and Sand? | {
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56cf4ee2aab44d1400b88fac | Frédéric_Chopin | Possibly the first venture into fictional treatments of Chopin's life was a fanciful operatic version of some of its events. Chopin was written by Giacomo Orefice and produced in Milan in 1901. All the music is derived from that of Chopin. | When was the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life? | {
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56cfe9df234ae51400d9c0a1 | Frédéric_Chopin | Some of his friends provided music at his request; among them, Potocka sang and Franchomme played the cello. Chopin requested that his body be opened after death (for fear of being buried alive) and his heart returned to Warsaw where it rests at the Church of the Holy Cross. He also bequeathed his unfinished notes on a... | Why did Chopin request being cut open after his death? | {
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