Pianist Ruth Laredo’s visit to Muhlenberg College’s Baker Center Friday night created a bit of a quandary in the minds of many listeners, the present writer included. On the one hand, the unusual ...

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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It's never a good idea to judge art by the artist's character, as we too often do these days, and there are few better examples of ...

When Polish composer Frederic Chopin died in 1849 he seemed to have suffered a classic Romantic death from tuberculosis. But doubts soon arose about the diagnosis, and a scientific examination of the ...

Frédéric Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, just west of Warsaw, in 1810. His father Nicolas was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland as a 16-year-old to teach music to children of the ...

Or a visionary composer of sonatas and ballades, obsessed with form and counterpoint in a way that even Bach would have appreciated? Welcome to the turbulent world of Frederic Chopin. Chopin’s whole ...

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.” ♪♪ In the Hôtel des Invalides, ...

Before he died on October 17, 1849, Frédéric Chopin made an unusual request: He wanted his heart to be removed from his corpse and transported from Paris, where the famed composer had lived and worked ...

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 ...

Poland says it acquired a rare manuscript of a ballad by Frédéric Chopin from private owners after confidential and lengthy negotiations. The manuscript for Ballade No. 4 in F minor is now being ...