In the early 19th century, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Ary Scheffer, and Eugène Delacroix lived in close proximity in the Parisian district of Nouvelle Athènes (New Athens). More than neighbours, ...

Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...

When Hershey Felder takes the San Diego Rep stage in the person of Fryderyk Chopin, he steps in from the shadows. That seems a fitting symbol for this rendering of a composer who was pursued by gloom ...

Never mind all those recordings: We’ve probably never heard the best works of Chopin. His friend, the painter Eugene Delacroix, argued that the Polish artist’s boldest inventions were the ones he made ...

Fryderyk Chopin’s music is one of Europe’s great cultural legacies. Many of his compositions were based on Polish folk tunes and reflected Chopin’s nostalgia for a homeland that he left early and to ...

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. By Alan Walker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 768 pages; $40. Faber & Faber; £30 THE LINEAMENTS of Chopin’s short, dramatic life are familiar to most classical-music ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

In the early 19th century, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Ary Scheffer, and Eugène Delacroix lived in close proximity in the Parisian district of New Athens (Nouvelle Athènes). More than neighbours, ...

Nineteenth-century pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849) emerges as a reserved, inward man who creates passionate music in this expansive, authoritative biography. Musicologist and ...