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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A musicien plays on a piano made by Peugeot Design Lab and Pleyel on media day at the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile September 27, 2012. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen PARIS (Reuters) - Pleyel, the illustrious ...

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 ...

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 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.