Tsarist Russia berated it as subversive, Nazi Germany banned it outright and to this day, for Poles, the cascading notes of Frederic Chopin still symbolise their country's long struggle for independence. After hearing Chopin's quintessentially Polish "Mazurkas" and his "Revolutionary Etude", Robert Schuman, a German and like Chopin ...

A high-tech museum dedicated to the Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin opened in Warsaw on Monday to mark the bicentenary of his birth. "It is among the world's most modern museums," Poland's Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski told reporters at the opening ceremony. Located in Warsaw's revamped ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is celebrating the 200th birthday of one of its most famous sons, composer Frederic Chopin, with a week-long marathon of recitals of his music, a commemorative bank note and a new state-of-the-art museum. Internationally famed pianists including China's Lang Lang, Israel's Daniel Barenboim, Polish prodigy ...

A marathon 171-hour concert of Frederic Chopin's music tuned up in Warsaw Monday marking the two possible birthdates of celebrated Franco-Polish musician and composer 200 years ago. "As we don't know which of the two dates is true, we had the unusual idea to link them with one ...