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This country inspired a dark piano work with an opening triplet motif of [read slowly] D, C-sharp, F-sharp, then long E-sharp. Paris’s Revue musicale popularized a composer from this country by publishing her salon piece “A Maiden’s Prayer.” A wind chorale consisting of three four-chord (10[1])gestures opens the Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major by a composer born in this country who wrote the popular encore piece Étincelles (“ay-tan-SEL”). This country’s pianist Julian Fontana shared rooms with a composer who dedicated a piece to him written in one of this country’s five national dance forms. An F-sharp minor Opus 44 “Tragic” piece in that form by a composer from this country is often grouped with the “Military” and a piece nicknamed by George Sand, the “Heroic.” (10[1])For 10 points, the mazurka is a dance from what home country of Frédéric Chopin? ■END■

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