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Chopin's Funeral By Benita Eisler Little, Brown, £16.99,...

cence I wanted to be when I grew up was Chopin. His music seemed very close to sex and the misery of not having it. His etudes were a brown study, his very nocturnes suggested......

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Hugh Massingberd AN INSPECTOR RECALLS by Derek Sherborn The Book Guild, i16.95, pp. 300, ISBN 1857766536 B ack in the early 1980s I set off with my lamented friend Patrick......