169 of these are for solo piano. The greatest of all Polish composers had a French father, Nicholas, who had gone to Poland as a young man and become a tutor to the family of Countess Skarbek at ...

The Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious music competitions in the world ... The competition rules foresee several main prizes and special awards: ...

(John Minchillo / AP) NEW YORK — The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music ... Chopin’s shortest known pieces. The waltz clocks in at under a minute long when played on ...

The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive script: “Chopin.” A previously unknown work of music penned by the European master Frederic Chopin appears ...

Sorita, 27, of Tokyo, matched Uchida as the only Japan-born pianist to win the second-highest prize in the prestigious piano competition ... Sorita attends the Chopin University of Music in ...