In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...

NEW YORK (WKRC) - A waltz from one of history's most famous musicians has been discovered after 200 years. It is the first new piece from the composer that has been found since 1930. Robinson ...

Though not the most imaginative take on the 21 nocturnes, the French pianist captures Chopin’s music as it was conceived on a superb-sounding 1836 Pleyel Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were ...

An unknown waltz by Chopin has been found. By Javier C. Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical music, opera and dance. As The Times’s classical music reporter, I don’t often get “news” from ...

Chopin’s solo piano études helped push the genre into uncharted territory. He would have practiced examples by Czerny and Clementi in his youth, but his own Op. 10 and Op. 25 sets make far more ...

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The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

I recently encountered a new study that looked at the response of dogs to various types of music. This one, out of Colorado State University, was authored by a team headed by psychologist Lori Kogan.

Every composer of any worth eventually gets his or her moment in the sun at the Proms, and this season it is the turn of César Franck, born 200 years ago in 1822. Franck’s symphony was much played in ...