Fryderyk Chopin as a teacher
After Fryderyk Chopin came to Paris in the early autumn of 1831, his main source of income was giving piano lessons.
After Fryderyk Chopin came to Paris in the early autumn of 1831, his main source of income was giving piano lessons.
Weinberg’s heart, whose beating can be heard in his music, was always in Poland. Poland was his homeland. That’s who Weinberg was.
The use of a facsimile score alongside a source edition helps the pianist to get as close as possible to the composer's original idea and intended per...
Polish society faces enormous challenges in the coming decades.
French and Western public opinion knows very little about the reality of the German occupation of Poland during World War II.
Polish universalism is somewhat akin to German universalism, except that it always looks to the east of Europe.
In May, like no other month of the year, important dates for our history and present come together.
History is a realm of cruel ironies.
If we ask what the history of Europe can teach us, I would like to start with our relations. Polish and German.
19 April 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first civilian rebellion against the German occupier.
In April 1943, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, the Germans occupying the Polish capital surrounded the Warsaw Ghetto – the Jewish quarte...
Russian aggression against Ukraine caused the post-Cold War order to crumble like a house of cards.
During his visit to the United States, Mateusz Morawiecki as opposed to ‘strategic autonomy’ and separation from Washington, proposes a strategic part...
With Russian President Vladimir Putin continuing to rage war in Ukraine for over a year now, President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv and his two ...
The Arctic is home to about 4 million people and comprises territories of eight sovereign States.
The Polish economy has been well served by a robust policy framework and favourable business conditions, allowing it to converge in living standards t...
It is sometimes surprising to see how the propaganda discourse and clichés created in past centuries are being resurrected in the context of contempor...
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...
So fascinating to Angela Merkel, Catherine II liquidated Sich by violence - the last refuge of self-government for free Cossacks under her rule, the l...
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...
This should come as no surprise, given that the world did not know about Polish history.
We must do everything to ensure that this greatest geopolitical nightmare of the 21st century is finally over.
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...
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 ...
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.
As every year, an international conference on the security of the Western world will be held in Munich in February.
The German crimes of the Second World War cannot be reduced to Nazism or the Holocaust.
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...
2023 marks the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising.
One hundred sixty years ago, in September 1863, during the January Uprising, the Russians demolished the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw, throwing the piano...
Poles have always refused to their fate being decided by others.
For more than 250 years, Central Europe has been struggling with the same problem.
Forty-one years ago, the Communist junta brought tanks onto the streets of Poland.
I experience this dually.
For the past nine months, in the center of Europe, just over Poland’s eastern border, Ukraine has been fighting for sovereignty and freedom.
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