Culture.pl breaks down an iconic piece by Fryderyk Chopin – a composition almost unrecognised by the musical society of his times, but which is now considered to be groundbreaking and timeless. Why?

If you're talking funeral music, no one did it quite like Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer born 200 years ago Monday. Chances are, you've heard snippets of his musical evocation of doom and gloom ...

An alternative version of Chopin’s famously morose piano work, but less solemn and more… trippy. The famous third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 actually began life as a ‘Funeral March’, or ...

Unlike many Polish modernist nocturnes, Władysław Podkowiński’s unfinished final painting goes beyond realist conventions. Marsz Żałobny Chopina (editor’s translation: Chopin’s Funeral March) is the ...

The popular idea of Chopin is as the archetypal Romantic composer-pianist, the lover of liberty, composer of the "Revolutionary" Study, Polish patriot, darling of the Paris salons and the subject of ...

After Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata, which music should you explore? Geraint Lewis Friday, January 21, 2022 Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? We suggest some musical ...

Biographer Eisler, whose last book was on Byron, has moved to much more heavily trodden ground with this one, and it is to her credit that she manages to make the brief arc of the exiled Polish ...

No one made funeral music quite like Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer born 200 years ago Monday. Chances are, you've heard snippets of his... Chopin's Iconic Funeral March Chopin's Iconic Funeral ...

An interesting version of Chopin’s morose Funeral March, but less solemn and more… trippy. YouTuber Cosmic Ferret has revamped Chopin’s beautiful, mournful ‘Marche Funèbre’ by playing it backwards.

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