To fully understand Poland you must understand the classical composer Frederic Chopin. It has been said by some experts that to understand Poland you must understand the composer Frederic Chopin. The ...

Ever since I was little, the Chopin E minor Piano Concerto has been one of my favorite pieces–so much so that as a teenager, I managed to learn enough of it to put myself in a state of bliss. But oh, ...

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, a 19-year-old student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, won third prize this week at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, one of the world’s ...

I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...

Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor. Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before he ...

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Bruce (Xiaoiu) Liu from Canada has won the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, organisers announced in the early hours of Thursday.PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik The jury of the prestigious ...

WARSAW – A baroque Warsaw mansion hosting a museum dedicated to one of Europe’s greatest 19th century musicians, Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, is reopening with a new focus on original ...

Thirty-five pianists from 14 countries are set to take part in the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, which opens in Warsaw on Thursday. Pixabay LicenseImage by Voytek Pavlik ...

Warsaw, Oct 15 (PTI) If the city of Warsaw were a person it would be Frederic Chopin. The 19th century piano virtuoso lived here for the first 20 formative and most productive years of his life and ...