When Polish composer Frederic Chopin died in 1849 he seemed to have suffered a classic Romantic death from tuberculosis. But doubts soon arose about the diagnosis, and a scientific examination of the ...

A new radio programme has claimed that Frédéric Chopin’s archivists and biographers have deliberately ignored the composer’s interest in men. The Polish classical composer and piano virtuoso lived ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Polish composer Frédéric Chopin has had a strange afterlife. He died and was buried in Paris in ...

Frederic Chopin wanted his heart cut out of his corpse. With his dying breaths in 1849 Paris, the renowned 39-year-old composer and pianist requested that his heart be removed and entombed in his ...