Charles Emmerson is a historian and the author of 'Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917–24' (Bodley Head)

Chopin’s last piano, a wing piano manufactured by Ignace Pleyel & Companie, Paris (1848). Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw

Romance and relics in Chopin’s Warsaw

Although the composer spent most of his life elsewhere, his ghost is ubiquitous in the Polish capital

29 Sep 2020