Fryderyk Chopin Institute manuscripts, edited by Zofia Chechlińska. The Institute is the organizer of the five-yearly International Chopin Piano Competition. It also runs the "Young Talents" programme to encourage young Polish pianists. The Institute is also organizing a festival "Chopin and his Europe" since 2005. It presents European music in the context of its links with the life and work of Chopin. One of the objectives of the festival programme is historical performance - presenting works as they were originally heard, on period instruments. The festival is organised in collaboration with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera and Polish Radio
Waltz in E minor (Chopin) Waltz in E minor (Chopin) The Waltz in E minor is a waltz for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin. It was composed circa 1830 and published in May 1851. It was the first of Chopin's posthumously published waltzes not to be given an opus number. It appears in Brown's catalogue as B. 56, in Kobylańska's catalogue as KK IVa/15, and in Chomiński's as P1/15. It was composed shortly before Chopin left Poland at the age of 20. Although this is the final (fourteenth) waltz in the older editions of Chopin (other waltzes being included in more recent editions), it is