On the 22nd of February 2010, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) issued the stamp set “Birth bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin (22/02/1810-17/10/1849)” consisting of 01 value of 2,000 đ.
The stamp set presented the picture of Frédéric Chopin against the image of his famous Ballade No.1 on the background of the picture of piano and the number of 200. That is a perfect lay-out of the stamp.
Frédéric Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsawa.
He was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. Seven-year old Chopin composed two Polonaises, in G minor and B-flat major.
On the 2nd of November 1830, at the age of twenty, he left Warsaw for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. The outbreak of the Polish November Uprising seven days later, and its subsequent suppression by Russia, led to Chopin's becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration.
Chopin arrived in Paris in late September 1831. In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances.
Chopin suffered from poor health and he died in Paris in the morning of Wednesday, 17 October 1849, aged thirty-nine, from pulmonary tuberculosis.
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