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 ...

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 ...

Composer and pianist, Frédéric Chopin died in Paris in 1849 at the age of thirty-nine from a lung condition. The son of a French father and a Polish mother, he began playing the piano at the age ...

Chopin’s much-loved solo piano music takes centre stage in ‘A Real Pain’, a new film by Jesse Eisenberg out now in cinemas. The score for Jesse Eisenberg’s latest film is made up almost entirely of ...