Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

One of my favorite classical recordings is Alain Planès’s Chez Pleyel (Harmonia Mundi, 2009), performed on an 1836 Pleyel, but Chopin Intime surpasses even that, representing as it does the ...

Explore the life and works of famed polish composer Frédéric Chopin in this clip from the first episode of Now Hear This Season 6, Now Hear This "Chopin's Polish Heart." Great Performances is ...

Absolutely. Chopin was born in the Polish countryside outside Warsaw. I start there with Jan and Polish cellist Maria Leszczyska. It's pretty opulent place for the Chopins to live. Well, not quite.

Everyone loves a troubled genius, and no one was more troubled, or more brilliant, than Frederic Chopin. A child prodigy, Chopin wrote some of the most beautiful music the world has ever seen ...

Composer and pianist, Frédéric Chopin died in Paris in 1849 at the age of thirty-nine from a lung condition. The son of a French father and a Polish mother, he began playing the piano at the age ...

Frederic Chopin's last piano, a Pleyel, among the items on display at the refurbished museum of the Polish 19th century pianist and composer New Hampshire lawyer ‘treated like a criminal’ by ...

“Chopin is not only historically one of the worlds’ greatest pianist and composer, but an amazing character, in many ways bigger than fiction,” says Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Co-CEO of Playtime.

A previously unknown work of music penned by the European master Frederic Chopin appears to have been found at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan. The untitled and unsigned piece is on ...

The paper was found to be consistent with what Chopin favored for manuscripts, and the ink matched a kind typical in the early 19th century when Chopin lived, according to the museum.

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

The paper was found to be consistent with what Chopin favored for manuscripts, and the ink matched a kind typical in the early 19th century when Chopin lived, according to the museum.