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Weronika Chodakowska (piano) - 'From Lviv to Paris' and 'From Paris to Lviv' - Recital and CD of Piano Works by Karol Mikuli (1821-1897) - composer, pianist, editor and friend of Chopin

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 FROM PARIS TO LVIV Recital of Piano Works by Karol Mikuli  (1821-1897) Weronika Chodakowska (piano) Last night was cold and slightly foggy in Warsaw being a week before Christmas Eve. I wandered the expanding and rather exuberant, glittering central streets of the Polish capital, a seasonally festive Warsaw. There have been so many exponential, glamorous changes here since I first visited the city to work on a joint venture banking project in January 1992. Even at that time, Warsaw was regarded as 'like Paris' by visitors from the East.  Contemporary Warsaw at night I was en route to a recital and  presentation of the  second recording of p iano works of a monument to  Karol Mikuli  (1821-1897),  the Polish pianist, composer, editor, close friend and favourite pupil of Fryderyk Chopin .  The pieces (mostly world premiere recordings) were to be  performed  by the gifted young Polish pianist  Weronika Chodakowska. I was a littl...
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Paper transcribed from the National Chopin Conference Warsaw: 'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' Paper delivered by Dylan Henderson PhD ‘A fragrance of the freshest flowers’: Chopin, Pleyel and the soprani sfogati

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National Chopin Conference Warsaw December 2025   'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century'  Paper delivered by Dylan Henderson PhD  ‘A fragrance of the freshest flowers’: Chopin, Pleyel and the soprani sfogati Bouquet Of Violets (1 872)   Edouard Manet  This was a particularly important, finely written and absolutely original paper as it involved the sound of Pleyel pianos and the relationship with the voice. As is well known, Chopin was deeply concerned with opera, singing and the voice in his teaching and compositions. His favourite flowers were violets.  This was an intensely interesting conference in total, but I have decided to post  in its entirety  this transcription of my colleague Dr.Henderson. It is a unique and exceptional paper. ‘A FRAGRANCE OF THE FRESHEST FLOWERS’  CHOPIN, PLEYEL AND THE SOPRANI SFOGATI DYLAN HENDERSON In the literature published duri...
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