During his 18-year exile in France, Frederic Chopin was a regular visitor to a two-storey house on a quiet street in Paris where the Polish composer often performed for friends and renowned artists. The house - now a museum but off the beaten path and often missed by tourists -- is hosting one of two exhibitions for the bicentenary of the great ...

Violet fragrance and birdsong accompany the music of Frederic Chopin in a new high-tech museum designed to transport visitors' every sense into the world of Poland's cherished 19th-century composer. Located in the 17th-century Ostrogski Palace on a hill in central Warsaw, the "Frederic Chopin Museum" was inaugurated on March 1 to mark the bicentennial of his birth, though pending ...

Tsarist Russia berated it as subversive, Nazi Germany banned it outright and to this day, for Poles, the cascading notes of Frederic Chopin still symbolise their country's long struggle for independence. After hearing Chopin's quintessentially Polish "Mazurkas" and his "Revolutionary Etude", Robert Schuman, a German and like Chopin a renowned 19th-century composer, understood, describing the music of his ...

A high-tech museum dedicated to the Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin opened in Warsaw on Monday to mark the bicentenary of his birth. "It is among the world's most modern museums," Poland's Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski told reporters at the opening ceremony. Located in Warsaw's revamped 17th century Ostrogski Palace, perched on a hill near the ...