Winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition - 9th Competition Warsaw - 1975 – Krystian Zimerman 🇵🇱 A deeply soulful performance of Chopin’s Mazurka in G minor, Op. 24 No. 1, from the 1975 Competition. Zimerman went on to win the competition, becoming the youngest ever competitor to take First Prize at the time. Today also marks the anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s death (17 October 1849) — a fitting day to remember his timeless legacy through one of his greatest interpreters. Stay tu

Winners of the Chopin Competition – 4th International Chopin Piano Competition - Warsaw 1949 - Halina Czerny-Stefańska 🇵🇱 Here she is performing in a rare film footage recorded shortly after her victory in Warsaw in 1949. 🎥✨ Halina Czerny-Stefańska became one of the most distinguished Polish pianists of her generation — admired for her deeply poetic tone, clarity of texture and natural sense of Chopin’s rubato. She later served on juries of the same competition she once won and remained a key