A Calendar of Events letting you know what, where and when is happening throughout the Chopin Year:
- Events: concerts, exhibitions, shows and many others
- Reports
- Interviews
- Kordegarda CHOPIN 2010
Places
Chopin 2010 Celebrations Office offers a map of places related to Fryderyk Chopin in Poland and abroad.
We would like to rediscover and present anew: schools, parks, squares, streets and monuments, memory plaques, etc. which remind us of one of the greatest artists in the history of culture, and which offer their own story, they keep secrets, they constitute an invitation for discussion.
In the framework of preparation for the Chopin Year we would like to draw attention to the state of the indicated places, and , if necessary, to initiate their renovation. We would also like to inform about every initiative of creating new Chopin space.
We would like to invite everybody to cooperate at construction of the map, galleries, and to send adequate materials together with photographs, which will be on a daily basis placed on the website in the tab “Places”. Maybe somebody will be able to reach such places and save them from oblivion…
Chopin locations today
Chopin on the beach
The oldest Fryderyk Chopin monument in South America is located in Rio de Janeiro’s Red Beach (Praia Vermelha). The monument was designed by August Zamoyski and put in place on the Praça...
Chopin’s bust in Paris Jardin du Luxembourg
On 17th October 1900 Georges Dubois’s monument commemorating Chopin was put in place in Paris’s Jardin du Luxembourg. In 1942, during the Second World War it was, nevertheless, removed from the...
Chopin in the Monceau Park
Strolling in Paris’s Monceau Park you may find an impressive sculpture representing Fryderyk Chopin in the process of composing the Funeral March. By his feet There is a mourning female...
CHOPIN’S MONUMENT IN BUENOS AIRES
The monument, authored by Pedro J. Ferrari, was executed in 1930 to be unveiled on 22nd September 1944. It is situated in Buenos Aires’s Chacabuco Park in the south part of the...
CHOPIN’S MONUMENT IN PUNTA DEL ESTE (URUGUAY)
The monument is situated in Punta del Este in Uruguay. It was unveiled on 20th November 1999 and is authored by Gustaw Zemła. Photographs: Polish Embassy in Buenos Aires
CHOPIN’S MONUMENT IN SÃO PAULO
The monument is located on a city square neighbouring the Municipal Library in the centre of São Paulo. The bronze cast of Chopin’s head is placed on a granite plinth featuring the following...
CHOPIN’S MONUMENT IN SHANGHAI
Chopin’s monument in Shanghai was unveiled on 3rd March 2007. It is situated in the Sun Jat-sen Park and measures 7 meters together with the plinth, which makes it slightly taller than Chopin’s...
CHOPIN’S MONUMENT IN SINGAPORE’S BOTANIC GARDEN
The monument was put in place on Singapore’s Botanic Garden on 5th October 2008, in close proximity of a band shell where Chopin concerts modelled on the sessions held in Warsaw’s Royal...
Chopin’s monument in Sopot
The stone bust was designed by Stanisław Horno – Popławski and executed by his student Albert Zalewski based on a concrete mould. It was installed at the crossroads of Fryderyk Chopin...
Paris, Père-Lachaise - Chopin's grave
Fryderyk Chopin died on 17th October 1849 in his Paris apartment on Place Vendôme. The funeral service took place on 30th October at the Madeleine Church in Paris. The service featured Preludes in...
Powązki Cemetery
The burial place of Fryderyk Chopin’s family members: his parents Justyna and Mikołaj Chopin (plot no. 9-IV-1), his sisters Emilia and Ludwika (the Jędrzejewiczes family tomb, plot no. 175-II-6/7),...
Chopin cities
London, 4 St. James’s Place
After his expedition to Scotland, Fryderyk Chopin returned to London and headed straight for Broadwood’s home at 33 Great Pulteney Street. Yet an exceptional place on the map of Chopin-related...
Aachen
On 18 May 1834, ‘the Gazette Musicale reports that “Messieurs Chopin and Hiller have left for Aix-la-Chapelle, in order to take part in a grand musical celebration, in which, under the direction of...
Antonin
Chopin thus recalled his autumn stay on Duke Antoni Radziwiłł’s estate in Antonin, Greater Poland, in his correspondence: ‘I received your last letter […] at Radziwiłł’s residence in Antonin. I was...
Barcelona
Barcelona was the second port of call on Chopin’s journey with George Sand and her children to Majorca in 1838. The travellers reached Barcelona from Perpignan on 2 November and put up at the Cuatro...