© AI Training forbidden - Selected Reviews of Chopin performances and Other Matters in Poland

The grave of Janusz Olejniczak, Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw  (Mid photograph) The grave of Janusz Olejniczak, Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw The musical nation of Poland is in deep shock this morning at the unexpected death of the great Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak. His death is a profound loss to Polish culture and a visionary interpretation of Chopin. A towering musician, idiomatic Chopinist and deep human being. There is a sense of symbolic immanence and transcendence in his death that took place a mere three days after we had commemorated at the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, the 175th anniversary of Chopin's death in Paris at two in the morning on 17 October 1849.  I was unable to attend the funeral but came to  Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw this morning, the day after the funeral (October 30th), to pay my respects to this great artist and creative human being - a human life of immense value to embrace in the fraught times we are living through. The profoun...

No photo description available. The Mozart Requiem was performed in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw tonight to commemorate the death of that great musical genius Fryderyk Chopin. How desperately we need the consolation of hope that lies within his music in these terrible times that suffocate the creative spirit … Watercolour and pencil drawing of Chopin on his death bed by Teofil Kwiatkowski. The painter was a witness to his last hours and death and drew a number of likenesses The plinth in which the heart of Fryderyk Chopin has been laid  Holy Cross Church, Warsaw The grave of Fryderyk Chopin in the  Cimetière du Père-Lachaise  Paris   Today was the 177th anniversary of Chopin's death in Paris at two in the morning on 17 October 1849. This immortal work was performed at his funeral at his request. He always felt himself close to Mozart and admired his music above all excepting that of Bach. This single death took me once again on a journey towards the un...