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Reporting from Warsaw \u2014 The stirring strains of Frederic Chopin<\/a>‘s music are reverberating across the world as music lovers celebrate the composer’s 200th birthday this year — from the ch\u00e2teau of his French lover to Egypt’s pyramids and even into space.
\nBut nowhere do celebrations carry the powerful sense of national feeling as they do in Poland, the land of his birth, where his heroic, tragic piano compositions are credited with capturing the country’s soul.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poland is going all out to display its best “product,” as officials bluntly put it, staging bicentennial concerts and other events in and around Warsaw, the city where the composer — known here as Fryderyk Chopin — spent the first half of his life.
\n“Fryderyk Chopin is a Polish icon,” said Andrzej Sulek, director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw. “In Polish culture there is no other figure who is as well-known in the world and who represents Polish culture so well.”
\nPerhaps nothing better conveys Chopin’s importance — literally — than his heart. It is preserved like a relic in an urn of alcohol in a Warsaw church.
\nJust before his death at age 39 of what was probably tuberculosis, Chopin, fearful of being buried alive, asked that his heart be separated from his body and returned to his beloved homeland. His body is buried at the P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where Chopin spent the second half of his life.
\nChopin was born in 1810 at a country estate in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French \u00e9migr\u00e9 father. Historical sources suggest two possible dates of birth — either February 22, as noted in church records, or March 1, which was mentioned in letters between him and his mother and is considered the more probable date.
\nSince no one is sure, Poland is marking both. A series of concerts in Warsaw and Zelazowa Wola are taking place over those eight days featuring such world-class musicians as Daniel Barenboim, Evgeny Kissin, Garrick Ohlsson, Martha Argerich and Krystian Zimerman.
\nThen, a refurbished museum opens in Warsaw on Monday displaying Chopin’s personal letters and musical manuscripts along with a narration of his life.
\nCelebrations span the globe, from Austria to concerts at Cairo’s pyramids and across Asia.
\nThe astronauts who blasted into orbit on the Endeavor space shuttle February 8 carried with them a CD of Chopin’s music and a copy of a manuscript of his Prelude Opus 28, No. 7<\/a> — gifts from the Polish government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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