Welcome to the "Chopin sites" Website
The Chopin Sites Website has been created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth in Poland on the 1st March 1810
Welcome to a pictorial overview of Fryderyk Chopin’s life, and a record of his journeys throughout Europe intended as a complement to the illustrated book CHOPIN’S EUROPE, published in Warsaw by Muza s.a. in both English and Polish.
Chopin was a great traveller, after Mozart, among the most travelled of all composers. Already as a child and teenager he visited many regions of his homeland in what is today Poland, but at his time was under foreign domination. He was accepted in all the best salons and was the darling of all the noble Polish families.
Due to the Insurrection of 1830-31, Chopin left his country for exile in 1830 never to return. He died in Paris in October 1849.
During those years he travelled widely throughout Europe and posterity is fortunate in that so many of the places with which he was associated are still there, nearly intact and immortalised by Hanna Komarnicka’s photographic eye.
This webpage affords the visitor a chance to see some of them.
While surfing the website, you may listen to following excerpts:
Mazurka, Op.59 No.1 in A Minor
and
Mazurka Op.59 No.3 in F Sharp Minor
both performed by Cor de Groot on a 1847 Pleyel piano.
By kind permission of Brilliant Classics
www.brilliantclassics.com
Concept and production of website: Catherine Selz-Komarnicki