Renata

I love this city. Especially for Frédéric Chopin’s breath here. The musical genius was only 39 years old when he lay on his deathbed. And hardly anyone knows that the container with Chopin’s heart was initially gathering dust in the cellars of the Church of the Holy Cross. The church’s administrators were aware of the musical genius’s frivolous life and did not want to incur God’s wrath. So only the next generation of monastic brothers decided that the heart should be given a place of honour.

Only 1st March 1879, the 69th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin’s birth, the heart was walled into the column. One year later, Leonard Marconi created the epitaph from Carrara marble, which can still be admired today…