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Poland claimed to Chopin in celebration of the bicentennial of his birth.

Nacho Temine Warsaw, Poland February 27 .- celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Frederic Chopin, a date used to claim the Polish composer's central European country's national symbol even though it is recalled from France who was the son of a French and who lived a crucial stage of his life in Paris.

To say in Poland that Chopin, whose bicentennial is met, gods and heroes gold, on Monday, was a composer is an authentic Gallic blasphemy, punishable as a minimum with looks of reproach.

"Of course it was Polish, Fryderyk (written in Polish) Polish Chopin is" proudly tell any Pole, who argued that the pianist was born in the vicinity of Warsaw (Zelazowa Wola, 1810) and their native language was Polish, as shown by, sto energy credits, the correspondence with his family after his departure to France.

His love for Poland was evident, and in fact ordered that after his death (Paris, 1849), his heart was deposited in the church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, although one can not forget her French side, as was the son of Frederic Nicolas Chopin, an expatriate Frenchman in the, tera gold, service of Polish aristocrats.

The truth is that Frederic Chopin lived in Poland until, in 1831, emigrated to Paris, where he resided most of his life, he met the considered the great love of his life, the novelist George Sand, and became the composer admired today worldwide.

A shared identity that does not prevent the celebration of the bicentennial of his birthday serves to vindicate the Chopin Polish birth and spirit, as evidenced by his polonaise or mazurkas, inspired by tradition and the Polish countryside.

Disputes beyond historicist, Warsaw is the center of this celebration, with the reopening on March 1st of museum dedicated to the composer, a modern space that will serve as a starting point for the 'Route de Chopin', the tourist itinerary through landscapes that inspired his compositions.

The museum faces the challenge of bringing the public something "warm but intangible, something that every one perceives their own unique way," as explained by the curator of the exhibition, Alicja Knast.

The facility, set to become a place of worship for music lovers around the world are located in an old baroque palace from the center of Warsaw, and had a cost of more than 80 million zloty (about twenty million euros) .

Historians are divided between those who say that Chopin was born on February 22 and those who maintain that it is March 1, 1810, the argument of the majority and that Poland has chosen to host the main events of the bicentennial.

In addition to the reopening of the museum, the Polish capital will have the presence of some of the finest pianists of the day, including Yundi, Dang Thai Son and Garrick Ohlsson, now interpreted in the Opera of Warsaw Chopin pieces with the Orchestra Filarmonica Polish National.

Although Warsaw is the main stage will not be the only one, as cities around the world joined the celebration of the birth of the composer, considered one of the great geniuses of musical history.

• The Government will pay 1 million eurosn

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