The Chopin Project

• Hear Chopin Project pianist Polina Khatsko play Polonaise in F Minor, Opus 71, No. 3 by Fryderyk Chopin

Chopin's initials embellish the gate at The Hermitage — formerly the Museum of the Chopin Festival — where, in the summer of 1826,…

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• Hear Arthur Greene play the rarely performed Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Opus 45 by Fryderyk Chopin

Nohant Manor — Garden Entry from "Chopin's Europe" courtesy MUZA SA, Image copyright 2010 Hanna and Juliusz Komarnicki

As we know, Chopin, like Mozart…

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The world is celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s 201st Brithday! Our part of it includes a vibrant awareness of the community of Chopin music lovers — visualized here with Chopin Planet and our Chopin Project Player.

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Daniel Rodriguez was a photojournalist for the Colombian daily newspaper El Espectador from 1936-66. His work, nearly all in black and white, is known for its beauty and simplicity. It shows a face of Colombian culture transporting the…

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• Listen to Olga Kleiankina perform Mazurka in B Major, Op. 56, No. 1, by Fryderyk Chopin

Copyright 2010 Hanna and Juliusz Komarnicki

“Sometimes, through the window which opens onto the garden, strands of melody waft upwards from Chopin, and mingle with…

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Sarasota Chopin Festival: from November 12-16, 2010 The Artist Series of Sarasota in association with The Chopin Project will proudly present concerts, films and special events as part of the international celebration of the Fryderyk Chopin Year.

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Visit Chateau Sarzay with Madame Sand and Fryderyk Chopin while listening to his Mazurka in A-flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2, composed at nearby Nohant Manor in 1845.

Many of the photographs provided by Hanna and Juliusz Komarnicki from their beautifully…

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A beautiful and moving video that brings to life Chopin’s early years in 19th century Warsaw. You see where the young “Frycek” lived and hear details of his family, friends, personality and musical progress. Produced by the City of Warsaw,…

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• Listen to Arthur Greene’s performance of Variation No. 6 for the Hexameron, by Fryderyk Chopin

Princess Cristina Belgiojoso, Underwriter of Hexameron

When Vincenzo Bellini, a great composer of bel canto opera and one of Chopin’s musical idols died in 1835, a group…

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Today’s Chopin Project posting features “Chopin’s Europe,” a just released hardbound photographic essay of all the places Chopin lived, loved, played and composed through the four decades of his life — some familiar, some rarely published, others newly discovered.

With a…

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• Listen to an iPhone App sample: Mazurka in B-flat Major 1825-6 [KK 891-5] by Fryderyk Chopin, performed by Arthur Greene.

Lutz, Florida – The Chopin Project® today announced the initial release of 20 exclusive new recordings, including many Chopin rarities via The Chopin…

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'Tributo a Chopin' 80 x 36 Oil on Canvass ©Camargo Vilardy, 2009. Photo courtesey of Angela Bustamonte (c) 2009

Today’s posting embodies a grand fusion of the 19th century music of Fryderyk Chopin and the visual expression…

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©Barbara Kerstetter

• Listen to Tarantella in A-flat, by Fryderyk Chopin

Self-appraisals are often too charitable; at other times, too critical. “I hope I won’t write anything as dreadful too soon.” Those were Chopin’s words about his own Tarantella in A-flat Major,…

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Iowa Public Radio’s brand new performance series, “PERFORMANCE IOWA” premiers tonight in celebration of Chopin’s 200th Birthday.

Host Jacqueline Halbloom presents Dmitri Vorobiev, Chopin Project pianist and UNI Assistant Professor of Music in live performance of two Chopin rarities: Tarantella in…

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• Listen to Contredanse in G-flat Major, by Fryderyk Chopin

According to Wikipdia, a Contra Danse was an English folk dance incorporating two long rows of partners facing and moving towards or away from each other. At the end of the…

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Presenting Chopin Project Audio Player and Chopin Planet:

With excitement and gratitude for Fryderyk Chopin’s music, we celebrate his 200th Birthday by introducing our newest feature – The Chopin Project Audio Player. Click the red “Listen Now” button and music will play.…

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Decades before Maurice Ravel came along, Chopin also found inspiration in the old Spanish dance known as the Bolero, defined as “A Spanish dance and song, in moderate tempo and triple metre, popular at the end of the 18th century and throughout the 19th, often performed with guitar and castenets.” In fact, the Spanish Bolero was rythmically related to the polonaise of Chopin’s native country, and even Beethoven wrote a Bolero a solo … it’s one of his minor “without Opus” works, WoO 158. Xiaofeng Wu of the Chopin Project plays it live…

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Christina Thayer plays Chopin’s Nocturne in G minor, Op. 15, No. 3 – an early success by Chopin

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