When Tadeusz (Tad) Dorda launched Chopin Vodka in 1992, the idea of a luxury vodka was virtually unheard of in the spirits world. The overwhelming perception was that it was a flavorless liquor best ...

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 nearly 100 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: ...

News broke today of a clandestine exhumation of composer Frédéric Chopin's heart in Warsaw in April 2014. Presided over by a mix of scientists, clergy and scholars, this mysterious event took place in ...

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 ...

Researchers say epilepsy may have triggered the composer's hallucinations. Jan. 25, 2011— -- The hallucinations of Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin may have been the result of temporal ...

I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...

3 WELCOME TO THE WATERFALL Play by Deborah A. Picone Debuts at the New York Theater Festival 4 New Comedy-Horror Play TINA MORGUE To Premiere at New York Theatre Festival The story is set in Chopin’s ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Eric Lu won the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (ph) on Tuesday in Warsaw, Poland. It's the first time an American has taken top honors at the competition since ...

An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here. Listen to the full performance ...

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Scientists have used the pickled heart of Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin to determine the cause of his death after more than 170 years. Chopin, who died in 1849 aged 39, apparently ...