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Chopin's hallucinations may have been caused by epilepsy

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In 1848, Polish composer and piano virtuoso Frederic Chopin was performing in Paris when he suddenly stopped in the middle of a piece and left the stage. In a letter to a friend, Chopin later wrote: "I was about to play the [Funeral] March when, suddenly, I saw emerging from the half-open case of my piano those cursed creatures that had appeared to me on a lugubrious night at the Carthusian monastery."

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