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Chopin competition turns 90

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Roberto Galea 23.01.2017 15:33
  • Chopin competition turns 90
Monday marks the 90th anniversary of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
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Flickr.com/Anton Vakulenko

The event is one of the four biggest piano competitions in the world and the oldest among them.

As Michał Owczarek reports, since its first 1927 edition, the event has yielded an impressive roster of superstar pianists.

“I knew and heard all Polish greatest Chopinists including Arthur Rubinstein and Józef Hofmann,” Halina Czerny-Stefańska, laureate of the 1949 competition said, adding that promoting Chopin’s music “is our outstanding tradition that I do my best to uphold”.

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