Happy birthday, Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849).

Liberace loved Chopin. In fact, he claimed to have been dubbed “The Chopin of TV.” When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Make sure you stick around for the three violinists – and hornist! – at 2:13:

Now watch as Liberace transforms into Chopin himself (starting around 1:40) and back again (around 4:25). In case you don’t get it, you can judge the time travel from the dissolve from electric light bulbs to actual candles in the candelabra:

Liberace and Virgil Fox on “The Mike Douglas Show” (Next: Ben Gazzara!):

Those were the days…