IT is certainly not true that what is called the artist’s temperament belongs exclusively to men of genius ; but there are certainly many men of genius whose power lies in their extreme sensibility, ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

A saccharine show-off? Passionate revolutionary? Eternal schoolboy? Or perhaps a frustrated neurotic? In each of the four films based on Chopin's life, we get a completely different image of the ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

Tess Vigeland: Get out the cake and candles for today marks the 200th birthday of someone near and dear to my heart as a classical pianist: Frederick Chopin. To think — if I had lived in 19th century ...

Journalist says he has found overt homoeroticism in Polish composer’s letters Frédéric Chopin’s archivists and biographers have for centuries turned a deliberate blind eye to the composer’s homoerotic ...

The first Frost Chopin Festival and Academy in Miami celebrated the work of Polish composer and pianist Frédérick Chopin (1810-1849) with a week of waltzes, mazurkas, nocturnes, etudes, sonatas, and ...

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. He wanted the ...

A 14-year-old South Korean middle school student won first prize at the 6th Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists Saturday. In addition to Cho Sung-jin, Korea's Ryu ...