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A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York. A curator was sorting through a collection gifted to the Morgan Library & Museum in ...

WARSAW, Poland -- As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library and ...

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 ...

WARSAW, Poland — As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland ...

Explore the ability of composer Frederic Chopin’s masterwork Ballade Number 1 to transform lives.s. Featuring commentary from four of the world’s greatest pianists ̶ Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lang Lang, ...

Chopin, reborn from the ashes. This is remarkable. The great 19th-century composer and pianist, Frédéric Chopin, has been reborn in digital form. In the beautiful new renderings, Chopin’s face can be ...

Well not quite, but the museum dedicated to him soon will be. The National Frédéric Chopin Institute in Warsaw has undergone a makeover and is ready to welcome visitors to its latest exhibition. The ...

“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel.” It has been almost 175 years since Frederic Chopin’s soul was snatched away into the ether by tuberculosis at the age of 39. However, the complexity ...

The heart of Frederic Chopin, among the world’s most cherished musical virtuosos, may finally have given up the cause of his untimely death. The prolific 19th-century Polish-French pianist and ...

The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: "Chopin." A ...