Chopin had the courage to believe that the expression contained in a three-minute Mazurka for solo piano could be as powerful as the expression in... A World Of Expression In A Tiny Chopin Mazurka A ...

Korean pianist Lee Hyuk was declared the winner of the 17th Animato Piano Competition and also took home the special Mazurka award, Lee’s management agency Etoile Classic announced on Friday. The ...

"Mazurkas Op. 50" is Szymanowski's second such prominent attempt, after the "Preludes Op. 1", to invoke the great Chopin tradition. On this page we present two articles on Karol Szymanowski's Twenty ...

The Mazurka is considered Poland's quintessential national dance. It comes from the region of Mazovia near the capital Warsaw. It's the birthplace of Frederic Chopin, whose Mazurkas for piano helped ...

Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu of Canada was named early Thursday as the winner of the 40,000-euro ($45,000) first prize in the 18th Frederic Chopin international piano competition, a prestigious event that ...

The prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition only comes around once every five years. It had been three decades since a native of Poland had won, but this year the winner was Rafal Blechacz, ...

It's hard to separate Poland's history from the lively dance that began in rural Poland and gradually, over time, worked its way into European ballrooms and the local traditions of far away cultures.

A shy young prodigy enters the limelight. Frederic Chopin used to tell his students, “Having overcome all the difficulties, played thousands of notes, you arrive at a charming simplicity that is the ...

Chopin: Mazurka in A minor Op. 17, No. 4. Frederic Chopin was one of the great composers for piano. His work forever changed what we even imagine as possible on the instrument, both technically and ...

Mazurka – a renowned dance from Poland 10/15/2016 The Mazurka is considered Poland's quintessential national dance. It comes from the region of Mazovia. It's the birthplace of Frederic Chopin, whose ...