When Tadeusz (Tad) Dorda launched Chopin Vodka in 1992, the idea of a luxury vodka was virtually unheard of in the spirits world. The overwhelming perception was that it was a flavorless liquor best ...

WARSAW — Nearly two centuries after his birth, Frederic Chopin remains a remarkably potent artistic force in Poland’s capital, his age-old music inspiring perpetually new waves of creativity and ...

Poland’s Chopin vodka is considered the world’s first super-premium vodka. The Dordas, a Polish vodka-making family, still makes the traditional potato vodka. Some 30 years ago, Chopin’s debut release ...

Poland’s culture ministry and the National Chopin Institute have praised the results of The Chopin Effect, a classical music ...

A saccharine show-off? Passionate revolutionary? Eternal schoolboy? Or perhaps a frustrated neurotic? In each of the four films based on Chopin's life, we get a completely different image of the ...

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 ...

Experts have found that the manuscript's paper and ink are consistent with the materials Chopin was using at the time. Carmen González Fraile, 2024 A curator in New York City has identified a lost ...

WARSAW, Poland -- As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in ...

Though not the most imaginative take on the 21 nocturnes, the French pianist captures Chopin’s music as it was conceived on a superb-sounding 1836 Pleyel Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were ...

A new piece of music believed to have been penned by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in the vault of a New York museum nearly 200 years after it was written. The unknown waltz was found in the ...

News broke today of a clandestine exhumation of composer Frédéric Chopin's heart in Warsaw in April 2014. Presided over by a mix of scientists, clergy and scholars, this mysterious event took place in ...

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