WARSAW--More than a half century after Mitsuko Uchida’s feat in 1970, Japan-born pianist Kyohei Sorita seemed unable to comprehend when he heard his name called out at the 18th International Chopin ...

Poland’s Chopin vodka is considered the world’s first super-premium vodka. The Dordas, a Polish vodka-making family, still makes the traditional potato vodka. Some 30 years ago, Chopin’s debut release ...

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 ...

WARSAW — Nearly two centuries after his birth, Frederic Chopin remains a remarkably potent artistic force in Poland’s capital, his age-old music inspiring perpetually new waves of creativity and ...

WARSAW, Poland -- 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 ...

The beauty of Chopin's music, rare and unique, verges - one is tempted to say - on a miracle. Since this opinion runs somewhat counter to the fixed, common ideas about greatness in music, it has often ...

Well not quite, but the museum dedicated to him soon will be. The National Frédéric Chopin Institute in Warsaw has undergone a makeover and is ready to welcome visitors to its latest exhibition. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...