WARSAW, Poland — As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland ...
For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library and ...
A new piece of music believed to be by the Polish composer Frederic Chopin has been discovered nearly 200 years after it was written. A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market ...
Frédéric Chopin’s heart has been preserved in a jar since his death – it has now been examined and his early cause of death finally revealed. When Chopin died in 1849, his body was buried in Paris but ...
Simpson’s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish Polish biopic "Chopin, Chopin!" ("Chopin, a Sonata in Paris"), handled for international sales by Paris' Playtime. Michał ...
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho became the first South Korean to win First Prize at the Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 2015. Following that award, he immediately recorded Chopin’s First Piano ...
Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...
American Eric Lu is the newest winner of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland.
Composer Frédéric Chopin had caught a cold. He’d spent nearly the entire summer of 1848 in Scotland playing concerts large and small for British aristocracy while being whisked around the social ...
Recently, the internet has been inundated with talk of an article in a publication called Medical Humanities titled, “The Hallucinations of Frédéric Chopin.” Two Spanish doctors state that the great ...
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