1 Mar 2010 Frédéric Chopin born 200 years ago

Polish-French composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin was born on 1 Mar 1810, and plans are under way in Poland for a year of concerts, recitals and conferences marking the bicentennial of his birth. The country's parliament has declared 2010 the Year of Fryderyk Chopin. A Chopin Centre and renovated Chopin Museum will be inaugurated to honor the great Romantic composer, whose work is regarded as a Polish cultural treasure.

The year will see around 1,300 Chopin concerts in locations ranging from northern Norway to Florida, listed on the dedicated website www.chopin2010.pl.

Poland expects an influx of visitors to the dozens of sites in the country where the composer lived and worked, particularly to the manor house in Zelazowa Wola where he was born. Now a museum, it has become a Chopin shrine. Warsaw is to have a new-look Chopin Museum. The Milan-based Migliore & Servetto company won the international competition for the design of the facility.

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