janotha's

Updated: May 9, 2025

Szulc asserts that the memorial in the Holy Cross Church, Warsaw where Chopin's heart is preserved bears the date March 2, 1809. Chopin, so Henry T. Finck declares, was twenty-two years of age when he wrote to his teacher Elsner in 1831. Liszt told Niecks in 1878 that Karasowski had published the correct date in his biography. Now let us consider Janotha's arguments.

James Huneker - Chopin : the Man and His Music