When you consider that any professional pianist today would hope to have a minimum of 30 engagements a year - and a busy one perhaps more than 100 - it comes as something of a surprise to learn that ...

A genius" in his review of Chopin's Variations on "Là ci darem la mano", Op 2, published in Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung on 7 December 1831. The author of the article appears as "K. Schumann" - a ...

Few composers command such universal love as Chopin; even fewer still have such a high proportion of their entire output remaining in the active repertoire. He’s the only great composer whose every ...

The music of Poland’s eminent Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist Fryderyk Chopin inspired a great many things. Instead of the obvious, like biographical films, here Culture.pl looks at seven ...