People have been singing ballads since the beginning of human history, and poets have been writing them for almost that long. But it took Frederic Chopin to turn the ballad (or ballade, as he called ...

How lives were shaped and changed by hearing and playing Chopin's technically demanding, emotionally turbulent music. From 2008. Show more Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story ...

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Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini CHOPIN and Schumann, whose bicentenaries the classical music world celebrates this year, have long been linked as pioneers of ...

Pianist Brian Ganz reflects on his lifelong connection to Frédéric Chopin. As part of the "Extreme Chopin" series at the Music Center at Strathmore, pianist Brian Ganz is on a journey to perform ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library and ...

Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story differs for each person who hears or plays it. Pianist Peter Donohoe heads a cast of people whose lives have been shaped and changed by ...