CHOPIN: A Polish ‘Nationalist’ whose music also resonates across China

"BEIJING — The great Polish composer Frederic Chopin is one of the classical music world’s best-loved musicians, admired both for his lyrical piano compositions and romantic life story.The bicentennial of his birth has thus been marked by a seemingly endless series of concerts and commemorations. While many of these are in Poland (where Chopin was born in 1810) and France (where he died in 1849), China’s major cities are also in the grip of “Chopin fever.”

 

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