Curtain up on Chopin museum

By Bernard Osser, in Warsaw for AFP Published: 11:45AM GMT 02 Mar 2010

A notable relic dedicated to Frederic Chopin non-stop on Monday at the Ostrogski Palace in Warsaw to symbol the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Tsarist Russia berated it as subversive, Nazi Germany criminialized it undisguised and for Poles to this day the cascading records of Frederic Chopin symbolises their country"s prolonged onslaught for independence.

After conference Chopin"s quintessentially Polish Mazurkas and his Revolutionary Etude, Robert Schuman, a German and similar to Chopin a eminent 19th-century composer, understood, describing the song of his Franco-Polish � la mode as "cannons dark between blossoms".

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Chopin wrote the absolute and violent Revolutionary Etude as an expat in his father"s local France, where he landed after an 1830-31 overthrow of Polish insurgents opposite the 1795 assign of Poland by Russia, Prussia and Austria.

Having refused to take a Russian passport, Chopin was never means to set feet on his and his mother"s local dirt again after the cursed insurrection.

Schuman showed foreknowledge when he pronounced of Tsar Nicholas I, if "this absolute and strict sovereign of the north knew the risk of the rivalry he has in the functions of Chopin (...) he would anathema his music."

As indeed, after the 19th-century assign of Poland the tsar censured open performances of Chopin"s song as dangerous.

In 1863, Russian infantry even broken the piano Chopin had played as a kid expert in Warsaw, throwing it out the second level of a construction in mystic punish for a unsuccessful gangland slaying try opposite the Russian administrator of Poland.

No one prior to nor any one given Chopin "has been means to emanate a sonic star from the melodies and rhythms surrounding Poles," pronounced Stainslaw Leszczynski, emissary executive of Poland"s Chopin Institute in Warsaw. "He delved in to folklore and combined song that has turn folklore."

Chopin"s song "is intuitively Polish, even if this in itself is formidable to define," pronounced Leszczynski.

Later on, the Nazis as well viewed the energy of this local whose song they criminialized during their heartless World War II function of Poland.

So manly was the viewed hazard of his fluent compositions that the Nazis even blew up a staggering statue of the composer in Warsaw"s sprawling Royal Lazieki park.

"The Germans longed for to fall short Poland"s inhabitant heritage, and this enclosed Chopin"s song that influenced nationalistic sentiments," Leszczynski said.

In 1958, the statue was made up and returned to the park. Chopin concerts are still played there each Sunday from Apr by to Sep in what has turn a week end protocol for most residents of the capital.

"His song is timeless, regularly beautiful, really moving, really Polish," pronounced Monika Hama, a 42-year-old facile propagandize emissary principal as she listened to the colourful records of Chopin"s Minute Waltz. It played from one of multiform low-pitched benches set up along executive Warsaw areas Chopin once frequented, in respect of the 200th anniversary of the composer"s birth.

Records point to possibly Feb twenty-two or Mar 1 as Chopin"s bieing born date, and some-more than 250 musicians and singers achieved for 7 days and nights over the last week in a marathon reverence in the Polish capital.

The Warsaw Philharmonic additionally hold every day concerts during the week, as piece of year-long events in Poland, and abroad, to symbol the composer"s bicentennial.

"It"s the ultimate of Polish romanticism, superfluous with all sorts of emotions - sadness, joy, love or surpassing weariness," Hama said.

Even Polish young kids recognize the composer.

"I similar to Chopin"s song since it"s a small bit unhappy and a small bit happy," pronounced Jas Adamczyk, eight. He wasn"t certain when he initial listened the composer but thinks "he"s cool" and could brand the matchless records of Chopin"s Opus 53, well known as the "Heroic Polonaise", rising from an additional bench.

"It"s sad, melancholy. Poland"s story was really violent and Poles experienced so most pang and misfortune," pronounced Michal, 24, an art tyro who gave usually his initial name.

"Chopin additionally suffered privately from critical seizure and the turmoil surrounding Poland at the time. I think this is because he wrote such beautiful, surpassing music," he added.

Born in Zelazowa Wola nearby Warsaw in 1810, Chopin died in outcast in Paris in 1849 of what was afterwards diagnosed as tuberculosis, but that a little experts right away hold might have been cystic fibrosis.

His physique is buried in the Pere Lachaise tomb in Paris, but his heart was sent behind home.

It lies inside a clear vessel filled with ethanol in Warsaw"s sprawling and exuberant antique Church of the Holy Cross. It was brought behind from Paris in 1849 - as Chopin wished - by his elder sister Ludwika.

A memorial board at the site is stamped with a biblical thoroughfare from the gospel of Matthew: "For where your value is, there your heart will be also."