He practiced Chopin day and night.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

One of my co-workers fancies that my name sounds like a phrase of Chopin's.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference

One gets the feeling that Chopin is replacing Beethoven as pop-culture's go-to classical reference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The answer was found in two words] Reference

Chopin said the Polish word zal — a "bittersweet melancholy" — best described much of his music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'] Reference

Not quite sure what Mr. Chopin is agreeing or disagreeing with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Liszt calls Chopin "a fine connoisseur in raillery and an ingenious mocker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

Xibeiliux's new music app, succinctly titled Chopin, reveals even more about this celebrated musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Theater Forum] Reference

I’ve always been a bigger fan of Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Strauss but anything by Chopin is awesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers] Reference

But I remember there were years when I was playing a lot of Chopin, which is very great music, but I cannot relate to Chopin the person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The Nazis were clearly aware of what German composer Robert Schumann, also born in 1810, called Chopin's "cannons hidden beneath flowers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottawa Sun] Reference

In the beginning, Chopin is her angelic lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Louise Erdrich] Reference

"Chopin," observes Eugène Delacroix, "belongs to the small number of those whom one can both esteem and love.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference

Frederick Chopin is there, reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2nd, 2002] Reference

The most popular of his music books, of course, is the "Chopin" (1900).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Prefaces] Reference

Your kind promise to translate the "Chopin" into beautiful German rejoices me extremely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters]

But if I had my choice of the whole shelf, it would rest, barring the "Chopin," on "Old.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Prefaces] Reference

Chopin; one of the few actually made from potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Demon Rum] Reference

Al had laid a Chopin on him, ice cold, in a frozen glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Demon Rum] Reference

That heavenly, otherworldly voice often shows up in Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Elsner: Chopin's Endless Fascination -- Between Heaven and Earth] Reference

"A Chopin waltz, Clair de lune by Debussy, a lot of pieces.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Vittes: Breaking News: Lang Lang Will Stick With Piano] Reference

His teacher will not give him Chopin because Halo has no legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day One of Eventually Discarded NaNoWriMo Writing Attempt] Reference

In "Impromptu," she was a ditsy duchess in the world of Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inheriting The Crown] Reference

Often in Chopin, there's a sense of being unanchored to solid ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Elsner: Chopin's Endless Fascination -- Between Heaven and Earth] Reference

Unlike Beethoven or Mozart or Bach, Chopin never composed a symphony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin With A Polish Touch] Reference

The Ballade No. 4 in F minor is one of my favorite Chopin compositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Elsner: Chopin's Endless Fascination -- Between Heaven and Earth] Reference

This is now her second Chopin CD, and she's really a great Chopin player.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rossini, Riley And Remixes: New Classical CDs] Reference

"Chopin Festival 2010" is dedicated to the Polish composer Frederic Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Off Europe] Reference

HUIZENGA: Well, of course, Poles love Chopin, and Chopin's father was French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin With A Polish Touch] Reference

Tom, thanks so much for walking us through some of these Chopin performances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin With A Polish Touch] Reference

SIMON: Now that's the Chopin waltz that's often known as the "Farewell Waltz.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Benny Golson Recreates His Great 'Jazztet'] Reference

So I've incorporated Chopin-esque and Bach kind of piano playing into the piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Brubeck: Composing Ansel Adams] Reference

So the Chopin, the melody is more inside, I think - more deep, more poetic, more quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pianist Brings Power to Liszt Concerto] Reference

(The rest of the CD features works by various masters including Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Gay Cd'] Reference

The Mazurka was a Polish peasant dance which Chopin reinvented - he composed around 60 of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Elsner: Chopin's Endless Fascination -- Between Heaven and Earth] Reference

RAZ: Okay, Tom, next up, there's a new recording you brought for us, a new recording of Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rossini, Riley And Remixes: New Classical CDs] Reference

And Chopin said goodbye to his country in the early 1830s, I think, and never actually came back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin With A Polish Touch] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. GOLSON: Everybody is playing the blues, and I'm talking about Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benny Golson Recreates His Great 'Jazztet'] Reference