My first single was " Could It Be Magic, " a - you know, a song that I based on a Chopin prelude, and it came in at eight minutes long.

我的第一首单曲是《Could It Be Magic》（这可能就是魔法），一首基于肖邦前奏曲创作的歌曲，时长达到了八分钟。

Every five years, hundreds of performers from all over the world apply to compete in the International Chopin Piano Competition.

每五年，来自世界各地的数百名表演者都会申请参加国际肖邦钢琴比赛。

I found there was an old site called the Chopin Files when I was in high school.

我在高中时发现了一个叫《肖邦文件》的旧网站。

Life of Chopin, all in Polish.

肖邦的一生，全都是波兰语。

But I asserted myself with confidence, and I found message boards to have these fun debates, and ranking the Chopin Etudes to see what was hardest.

但我自信地表达了自己观点，并发现论坛上有这些有趣的辩论，还会对肖邦练习曲进行排名， 看看哪首。

But not any more of one than the Chopin.

但效会比肖邦的乐曲更好。

We think for example of the famous nocturnes of Chopin.

我们想到例如肖邦着名的夜曲。

Then Chopin is sitting here and he modulates; he changes key. What about this?

然后肖邦这里徘徊了一下然后转调他变调了 这个呢？

That's a very sad piece of music composed by Chopin.

这是肖邦创作的一首非常悲伤的乐曲。

Yeah, that's not funny, that's a very sad piece of music composed by Chopin.

那是肖邦写的一首非常伤感的曲子。

OpenAI, a San Francisco firm, for its part, says its MuseNet model struggles to pull off " odd pairings" , such as a Chopin style that incorporates bass and drums.

总部位于旧金山的公司OpenAI表示，其MuseNet模型很实现“奇怪的配对”，例如融合贝斯和鼓的肖邦风格。

He wanted to be surprised by what would happen if, say, he started improvising from the hesitant first bars of Chopin's Mazurka in A minor.

他想让接下来发生的事情充满惊喜，比如说，如他从肖邦A小调玛祖尔卡舞曲的第一小节开始即兴演奏。

I got up and rifled through my shoebox of CDs until I found a collection of Chopin's nocturnes.

我起身在用力装CD的鞋盒里翻找着，直到我找到一张肖邦的小夜曲合辑。

' But is all that any more relaxing than some gentle Chopin?

’但这一切是否比温柔的肖邦更令放松呢？

The man with whom my wife ran away played Chopin exquisitely.

我妻子私奔的那位先生, 弹得一手绝妙的肖邦。

I'm gonna play Chopin Impromptu, number one in A-flat major.

我要演奏肖邦的降A大调第一号即兴曲。

Okay, it's 1830, Chopin's 20 years old, an aspiring young musician.

好的，那是1830年，肖邦20岁，一个有抱负的年轻音乐家。

So I play these like, Chopin, Polonaise, like big pieces by ear.

所以我能凭听觉演奏这些，比如肖邦的《波兰舞曲》，那些大部头的作品。

If you move to, I don't know, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, or to Chopin's Nocturnes.

如你转向，比如说，贝多芬的第五交响曲，或是肖邦的夜曲。

The photograph represented a young man with a poetic necktie and untrammelled hair, leaning negligently against a Gothic chair-back, a roll of music in his hand; and beneath was scrawled a bar of Chopin, with the words: " Adieu, Adele" .

照片上是一个打着富有诗意的领带、头发没有束缚的年轻，漫经心地靠在哥特式椅背上，手里拿着一卷乐谱；下面潦草地写着肖邦的小节，上面写着：“再见，阿黛尔”。