Prof. Benjamin VOGEL: What pianos did Fryderyk Chopin use?

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The last piano owned by Chopin, the one that was in his apartment at the time of the composer’s death, is also the most valuable.

Prof. Zbigniew SKOWRON: Fryderyk Chopin as a teacher

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After Fryderyk Chopin came to Paris in the early autumn of 1831, his main source of income was giving piano lessons.

Jan ROKITA: Polish universalism

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Polish universalism is somewhat akin to German universalism, except that it always looks to the east of Europe.

Prof. Serhy YEKELCZYK: Homage to Poland

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When I was growing up in Soviet Ukraine, Poland appeared enigmatic to me—it was both attractive and dangerous, a place from which Ukrainian visitors b...

Prof. Wojciech ROSZKOWSKI: Freedom is indivisible

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Today war, and an exceptionally cruel one at that, is close at hand, and so many people in the West are surprised that Ukrainians do not want to surre...

Jan ROKITA: Abandonment and obliteration

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The abandonment by the Allies and the subsequent erasure of a nation and its culture by an occupying power - this is the greatest collective trauma of...

Diane FRANCIS: The Time of Poland

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Poland has become a pillar of security on the Alliance’s eastern flank thanks to the country’s tremendous economic development, which has helped fund ...

Prof. Andrzej NOWAK: Polish mad love for freedom

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Rising up results from a change in circumstance. In other words, rising is a reaction to a fall. But it is not the only one.

Jan PARYS: Europe in the shadow of Munich

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As every year, an international conference on the security of the Western world will be held in Munich in February.

Karol NAWROCKI: German Denial

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The German crimes of the Second World War cannot be reduced to Nazism or the Holocaust.

Robert KOSTRO: The European Formation Laboratory

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The January Uprising offered a fair chance to break the solidarity of the three partitioners and gain the support of the Western powers, France and Gr...

Artur SZKLENER: Frederic Chopin - poet of Polish freedom

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One hundred sixty years ago, in September 1863, during the January Uprising, the Russians demolished the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw, throwing the piano...