True, Warsaw was provincial in 1810, far from the centre of musical culture. But that meant Chopin could be a big fish in a small pond. His French father, Mikolaj, was a tutor to the nobility at the ...

The music of Poland’s eminent Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist Fryderyk Chopin inspired a great many things. Instead of the obvious, like biographical films, here Culture.pl looks at seven ...

From Etudes to Nocturnes – here’s the very best of Frédéric Chopin, 19th-century piano virtuoso and leading figure of the Romantic era. Frédéric Chopin is almost exclusively associated with the king ...

For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and traditionally leads him to Warsaw - the Chopin International Piano ...

Stephen Plaistow recalls the illustrious recorded history of Chopin's oeuvre and offers a personal view of some of the most famous pianists In the years since Chopin died perceptions of him have, of ...

Pianist Rafal Blechacz won the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, so he's qualified to play Chopin. He was back in Warsaw this past summer to play the Barcarolle, Op. 60, and the Etude ...

A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in nearly 100 ...

An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here. Listen to the full performance ...

The last piano Frederic Chopin ever played is currently being restored in the Polish capital. The historic instrument is being given back its original mid-19th century characteristics using expert ...

As It Happens6:33New Chopin just dropped. Unknown piece by the legendary Polish composer found in NYC When Robinson McClellan first happened upon what appeared to be an unknown composition by the ...

LaZona Pictures, the distribution label of Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson’s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish Polish biopic “Chopin, Chopin!” (“Chopin, a Sonata in Paris”), ...