5. Chopin's Nocturnes Between 1827 and 1846, Chopin wrote 21 Nocturnes for solo piano. From his dreamlike Nocturne in E Flat Major Op. 9 No. 2 to his posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Chopin's ...

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 ...

was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose "poetic ...

McMaster professor Alan Walker spent 10 years travelling the world, combing through the archives of one of history's most fabled composers. Fryderyk Chopin has been the subject of many biographies and ...

Frédéric Chopin’s archivists and biographers have for centuries turned a deliberate blind eye to the composer’s homoerotic letters in order to make the Polish national icon conform to conservative ...

Pianist Ruth Laredo’s visit to Muhlenberg College’s Baker Center Friday night created a bit of a quandary in the minds of many listeners, the present writer included. On the one hand, the unusual ...

Frédéric Chopin’s nine-year affair with author George Sand is the stuff of legend. Less well known is his relationship with Jane Stirling of Perthshire. Infatuated with her superstar piano teacher, ...