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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A child prodigy, Chopin began piano lessons at the age of 6 and was composing and giving public concerts by the age of 7. His performances were renowned for their nuance of expression, and his ...

Curators at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City discovered a music manuscript believed to be by Polish pianist and composer, Frédéric Chopin, in the museum’s collection. The work measures ...

A previously unknown musical manuscript, possibly by Frederic Chopin, rests in a display case after it was discovered at The Morgan Library & Museum, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in New York. It's ...

Well not quite, but the museum dedicated to him soon will be. The National Frédéric Chopin Institute in Warsaw has undergone a makeover and is ready to welcome visitors to its latest exhibition. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 1 in C Major Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 2 in A Minor Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 3 in G Major Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 ...

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 ...