This is one of Chopin's most mournful works has lived long in the memory thanks to Jack Nicholson, or all people. When you think of Chopin, you don't necessarily think of incurable sadness and ...

Chopin's 24 Preludes are universally recognized as some of the composer's most characteristic works. Not only are they quintessential of his style, but are also deeply tied with upheavals in Chopin's ...

"Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music," by Paul Kildea. W.W. Norton, 368 pages. $27.95. Even those who are not musically inclined will find themselves reading this book ...

The 24 Preludes find their origin in J.-S. Bach's music, especially on account of their polymelodic texture; at the same time, they break from the post-classical tradition, since they lack any ...

High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

Chopin and the Prelude The elements of music to consider Continuation of the elements of music to consider Performing and composing ideas ...

Pianist Rafal Blechacz's victory at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (the first Polish performer to take the prize in 30 years) aroused plenty of interest in this young virtuoso.

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), whose 200th anniversary it is this year, is the overwhelming favorite composer for the piano. He possessed the most subtle intuitions and fathomed the mysteries of the ...