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Page turn fail

Pianist’s page-turn nightmare as Chopin score goes flying across stage

Videos

Young pianist plays Chopin at Milan Airport

Six-year-old prodigy plays beautiful Chopin waltz on airport piano

Chopins’ Funeral March, backwards.

Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ played backwards sounds bizarrely psychedelic

Malaika Mihambo is a world champion long jumper, and plays classical piano to unwind.

World Athletics long jump champion is also a classical pianist with a passion for Chopin and Schubert

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Nokia ringtone

Did you know the original Nokia ringtone comes from a piece of Spanish classical guitar music?

Tárrega

Irina plays piano in her destroyed hometown of Bila Tserkva

Ukrainian pianist plays a final Chopin melody before fleeing ruined home near Kyiv

Beethoven

A digital artist is using AI to reveal how history’s great composers would look today

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Young pianist Elisey Mysin

7-year-old pianist mesmerises with virtuosic and heartfelt Chopin on live TV

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Solo pianist plays every single orchestral line in painstakingly brilliant Chopin concerto

Solo pianist plays every single orchestral line in painstakingly brilliant Chopin concerto

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Chopin and Rachmaninov piano mashup

Pianist melts together Chopin and Rachmaninov in virtuosic display of musicality

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When a grand piano string explodes...

When your Chopin is so virtuosic that a grand piano string explodes.

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What if Chopin had written ‘Happy Birthday’?

What if Chopin had written ‘Happy Birthday’?

Musician plays Chopin ‘Waterfall’ Etude while paddling in water

Smarty-pants musician plays Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ Étude while paddling in water

Gorgeous composers

12 composers who were total heart-throbs in their 20s

Impromptu Hugh Grant Chopin Julian Sands Liszt

The time Hugh Grant starred as Chopin in a delightfully awkward film

Most people can’t match the composers’ face to the music – can you?

Most people can’t match the composer’s face to the music – can you?

Lifestyle

Clara Schumann, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms

Romantic composers brought back to life in artist’s hyperrealistic 3D portraits

Brahms

A visual artist has created a 3D rendering of Frédéric Chopin’s face

Chopin’s face is brought to life in artist’s incredible 3D portraits