Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here. Listen to the full performance ...

During the 2005 Chopin Competition, the quiet 20-year-old pianist Rafal Blechacz promised himself that he wouldn't listen to the playing of a single other competitor. This way, he decided, he would ...

An unknown waltz by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in a library in New York, leading to an outpouring of excitement across the classical music world. Exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist Lang ...

A child prodigy, Chopin began piano lessons at the age of 6 and was composing and giving public concerts by the age of 7. His performances were renowned for their nuance of expression, and his ...

Musicologist Iza Smelczyńska and music critic Filip Lech look back on the most beautiful moments of the third round, talk about the biggest snubs of the 19th Chopin Competition and try to foresee the ...

In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...

Chopin's highly creative final years, spent at his lover's retreat.