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Contributions of this section offer ways of doing so: in 2009, the 210th anniversary of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837), considered by many as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature; in 2010, the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), a Russian short-story author and playwright considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature; and also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric François Chopin (March 1st 1810–October 17th 1849), a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, of world fame and one of the great masters of Romantic Western music. In the following articles, two arts lovers share with the reader their appreciation: first, Tudor Vladescu of the Inter-university Institute of Macau, crosses over time and space and stretches Macau’s melancholy as if Pushkin’s and Chekhov’s had been able to express it in their poems or stories. Then, Luca Uggias, an Italian composer and pianist from Padua, leads the reader into discovering Chopin’s genius: he was an innovator.
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