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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Zephyr Records has announced the release of all sixteen volumes of Chopin: The ...

Brian Ganz is preparing to climb a musical Mt. Everest. He wants to perform all 250 keyboard-based works of Frederic Chopin. He’s in no hurry, though. “This will probably take the better part of a ...

FORT WORTH — Every so often a concert feels particularly special, one you’re grateful to be experiencing. That’s how it was with pianist Piers Lane’s recital Saturday night at Texas Christian ...

Listening to pianist Jocelyn Swigger's new album The Complete Chopin Études isn't like hearing these famous pieces for the first time again. But it is sure to give listeners a fresh perspective on ...

Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories edited by Sandra M. Gilbert Library of America, 1000 pages, $35.00 Kate Chopin's late-nineteenth-century "local color" short stories, set largely within the ...

24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor, Presto 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, Lento 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 14 in E-Flat Minor, Allegro 24 ...

The mazurka, a traditional Polish dance, acts as a siren to Poles far and wide. Janina Fialkowska, born in Canada but half-Polish, says that in playing the mazurkas of Chopin she has been afforded “a ...

Scientists have used the pickled heart of Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin to determine the cause of his death after more than 170 years. Chopin, who died in 1849 aged 39, apparently ...

The Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter was born to play Chopin. He is the composer with whom her name is most closely associated, and this second CD for EMI is devoted entirely to his works, in this ...

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 ...