“For us ‘Chopin, Chopin!’ is the first true European ‘super-production’ on the slate — a statement of intent to keep growing, step by step, but also to take bolder swings at films with wider audience ...

Eric Lu, a 27-year-old American classical pianist, won the top prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday. The prestigious event, which happens every five years ...

Chinese pianist Wang Zitong plays Polish composer Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1 in E Minor, Op 11, during the final of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition on Monday. She ...

Christian Kaszewski got up at 3 a.m. Sunday and lined up outside Warsaw’s Philharmonic Concert Hall in the hope that he might score one of the hottest tickets in town. By noon, it wasn’t looking good.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s relationship with its most celebrated composer, Fryderyk Chopin, is so deeply woven into national life ...

Every two years, Cairo hosts Egypt’s only Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youths. Winners not only perform but also travel to Poland to connect with Chopin’s heritage, deepening their ...

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A few hundred people gather in front of a large white tent in the peaceful spa town of Duszniki-Zdroj, nestled on the Polish-Czech border. Inside, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra is ...

Hanging in the brightly-lit Gallery of Polish Art of the Nineteenth Century, on the third floor of the National Museum in Poznań, is Teofil Kwiatkowski’s masterpiece Polonez Chopina (Bal w Hôtel ...

Former union minister and Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday linked the Pahalgam attack to "unresolved questions of the Partition." Addressing an event in the national capital, the ...

The Chopin Museum in Warsaw has unveiled the composer’s autograph manuscript of the Ballade in F minor, Op. 52. It was purchased from a private collector with funds provided by the Polish Ministry of ...

Experts have found that the manuscript's paper and ink are consistent with the materials Chopin was using at the time. Carmen González Fraile, 2024 A curator in New York City has identified a lost ...