The work measures 4-to-5 inches, similar to other manuscripts by Chopin and is believed to be originally intended as a gift, according to the Morgan Library & Museum’s press release. Robinson ...
According to the New York Times, Robinson McClellan was sorting through a collection of cultural memorabilia in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan when he found a pockmarked ...
The Morgan Library & Museum believes that the fact that the manuscript is so small could mean that it was meant to be a gift that the recipient would have kept in an autograph album. Chopin was ...
"Based on other similarly-sized manuscripts by Chopin, it is assumed that it was meant as a gift for inclusion in someone's autograph album," the news release states. "Chopin usually signed ...
Curator Robinson McClellan was sifting through a collection of cultural memorabilia in the vault ... was a familiar handwritten name: Chopin. “I thought, ‘What’s going on here?
called the piece a “little gem” that Chopin likely intended as a gift for a friend or wealthy acquaintance. “Many of the pieces that he gave as gifts were short – kind of like ...
Hernández Engineered by Rowan Niemisto Sorting through a collection of memorabilia one day ... of paper with musical notes on it and the name Chopin written across the top.
A previously unknown composition by 19th-century composer Frédéric Chopin has been unearthed ... sorting through a collection of cultural memorabilia within the vault at the museum on Madison ...