Alan Walker, the esteemed biographer of Liszt and Chopin, explains his singular approach to history. He reveals why he remains an ‘analogue person‘ in a digital world, and argues that the best path to ...

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 ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

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McMaster professor Alan Walker spent 10 years travelling the world, combing through the archives of one of history's most fabled composers. Fryderyk Chopin has been the subject of many biographies and ...

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 ...

Frédéric Chopin passed away more than 160 years ago -- sufficiently long ago that today all of his compositions belong to the public domain. Yet, despite this, if you wanted to make a movie with ...

Chopin, one of the world's greatest composers was born in Poland in 1810 and moved to Paris when he was 20 years old. After moving to France, Chopin sustained himself by teaching piano lessons and ...

Frédéric Chopin’s nine-year affair with author George Sand is the stuff of legend. Less well known is his relationship with Jane Stirling of Perthshire. Infatuated with her superstar piano teacher, ...

Pianist Ruth Laredo’s visit to Muhlenberg College’s Baker Center Friday night created a bit of a quandary in the minds of many listeners, the present writer included. On the one hand, the unusual ...