The always short and physically frail Frederic Chopin moved with his family to Warsaw as a newborn and ... Inside a pillar on the left-hand side of the nave is an urn containing Chopin's ...

Chopin’s sister, Ludwika, had his heart removed, preserved in alcohol — cognac, the strongest available at the time — and hermetically sealed in a crystal jar. The jar was placed in an urn ...

A rare waltz manuscript believed to be composed by Frédéric Chopin was discovered at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and predicted to have been originally written as a gift.

Ary Scheffer’s Paris studio was a vibrant meeting place for painters, writers, and musicians - Chopin among them. A true ...

Chopin died in Paris, France, at the age of just 39. He’s one of Poland’s most famous sons, and his name adorns the airport serving the capital Warsaw, as well as parks, streets, benches and ...

The jar was subsequently encased in a wooden urn and buried beneath a monument at the Holy Cross Church. In the early 20th century, Chopin, as one of Poland’s most famous native sons, became the ...

Many of the digitised works come from the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw, which houses nearly ninety thousand objects that belonged to the composer; but many others have not yet been digitised.

The prolific musician and composer Frederic Chopin was a giant of the Romantic Era, known for writing passionate pieces for the piano. But the Polish-born Chopin was afflicted by mysterious health ...

Frédéric Chopin’s same-sex love letters covered up by biographers and archivists, claims new programme. Swiss radio documentary explored evidence of the great composer’s attraction to men ...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), whose 200th anniversary it is this year, is the overwhelming favorite composer for the piano. He possessed the most subtle intuitions and fathomed the mysteries of ...