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Introduces a great composer whose operas are less widely known than his other music. Haendel was born in Germany, lived in England and was a passionate admirer of Italian opera. He was a complex and fascinating figure, one of the first composers to be financially independent from a patron. His recent "discovery" has, once again, made him the popular composer he was.

September 1831. During his stay in Germany, young Frederic Chopin gets to know the fall of his native town, Warsaw. Without any news from his family and his friends who stayed in Poland, Frederic lives in a nightmare. He doesn't know yet that he will see again his parents only one more time and never more his motherland. Nostalgia will mark his entire work.

Thinker, musician, poet, Wagner was a myth all during his life. He wanted to regenerate world with Art. His very innovating work expresses his entire philosophy of the world. This documentary gives the "keys" to the spectators to understand the universe of Wagner. It presents also his life, real fiction and reinstates it in the historical, politics and social context of his epoch.