In the 19th century, a Warsaw newspaper published a sentence: 「God gave Mozart to the Germans, Chopin to the Poles.」
Chopin(1810-1849), the piano poet who died at the age of 39, his body was in France but his heart in Poland. His father was French and lived in Poland for many years. His mother was Polish, and she loved singing. Chopin always regarded Poland as his own country, and Poles also worshiped him as their national great man.
From leaving Warsaw in 1830 to dying in Paris, he never returned to his hometown, but he always missed his motherland which was under the cruel rule of the Russian Emperor at that time.
While a handful of Polish soil was scattered over his coffin buried in a foreign land, Chopin’s heart was removed following his will to return to Warsaw, where it was placed in the pillars of the Church of the Holy Cross.
The piano poet devoted his whole life to the piano, and through the unique language of the instrument, he revealed his feelings of sadness, anger, passion and dreams. His music, which expresses the anger and resistance of the enslaved people, has special significance in the minds of Poles.