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09:33, 05-Aug-2018
73rd International Chopin festival kicks off in Poland
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08:51, 08-Aug-2018
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A total of nearly 20 concerts and piano recitals will feature in the ongoing 73rd International Chopin Festival, which started on Friday and will run until August 11, in Duszniki-Zdroj, a popular mountain spa resort in southwest Poland.
Among the invited artists are renowned concert pianists such as Sergei Babayan and Jonathan Plowright, as well as fine artists of a younger generation like Alessio Bax, Rachel Cheung or Boris Giltburg, Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported.
In addition to Fryderyk Chopin's music, the artists will also present works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky.
July 7, 2017: A view of a 1933 marble of Fryderyk Chopin by Antoni Madeyski, seen in Chopin's birthplace museum devoted to the composer, located in a small village of Zelazowa Wola, in Warsaw, Poland./VCG Photo
July 7, 2017: A view of a 1933 marble of Fryderyk Chopin by Antoni Madeyski, seen in Chopin's birthplace museum devoted to the composer, located in a small village of Zelazowa Wola, in Warsaw, Poland./VCG Photo
Prof. Piotr Paleczny, artistic director of the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj, emphasized that the event is aimed at the "promotion of talented pianists of the young generation."
Master classes conducted by Prof. Vanessa Latarche from the London Royal College of Music and Prof. Eugen Indjic from Schola Cantorum in Paris will be held as accompanying events, the festival's spokesperson Edyta Wolfson told PAP.
The International Chopin Festival at Duszniki-Zdroj, the oldest event of the kind in the world, has been held annually since 1946 to mark young Chopin's brief stay and concerts at this health resort in 1826.
(Cover photo: A view of a portrait of Fryderyk Chopin by Leon Wycholkowski, seen in Chopin's birthplace museum in Warsaw, Poland. /VCG Photo)
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency