In the early 19th century, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Ary Scheffer, and Eugène Delacroix lived in close proximity in the Parisian district of Nouvelle Athènes (New Athens). More than neighbours, ...

When Hershey Felder takes the San Diego Rep stage in the person of Fryderyk Chopin, he steps in from the shadows. That seems a fitting symbol for this rendering of a composer who was pursued by gloom ...

Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...

The last piano that Frederic Chopin composed on. A death mask made after he succumbed to what was probably tuberculosis. A lock of his brown hair. Those are among objects on display at a new museum ...

Never mind all those recordings: We’ve probably never heard the best works of Chopin. His friend, the painter Eugene Delacroix, argued that the Polish artist’s boldest inventions were the ones he made ...

Chopin, reborn from the ashes. This is remarkable. The great 19th-century composer and pianist, Frédéric Chopin, has been reborn in digital form. In the beautiful new renderings, Chopin’s face can be ...

“Chopin Without Piano’’: The title alone is a provocative contradiction in terms, like, say, “Brady Without Football’’ or “Trump Without Ego.’’ Actually, “Chopin Without Cant’’ might serve as an ...

Fryderyk Chopin’s music is one of Europe’s great cultural legacies. Many of his compositions were based on Polish folk tunes and reflected Chopin’s nostalgia for a homeland that he left early and to ...

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. By Alan Walker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 768 pages; $40. Faber & Faber; £30 THE LINEAMENTS of Chopin’s short, dramatic life are familiar to most classical-music ...