High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

THE illicit winter honeymoon which George Sand and Frédéric Chopin spent in Majorca over a century ago was the subject of a recent luridly sentimental film, and has contributed more than any other ...

Playing tribute to Mallorca’s most famous musical visitor, Frederic Chopin, the Balearic island is celebrating his bicentenary year with a vibrant season of classical concerts. Many of the events are ...

"Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music," by Paul Kildea. W.W. Norton, 368 pages. $27.95. Even those who are not musically inclined will find themselves reading this book ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In 1838, Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, along with her two children, journeyed to the Mediterranean island of Majorca for a winter of rest and respite. They expected to find healing warmth on the ...

But in his short life he wrote music that is central to the piano repertoire: the dancing rhythms of waltzes and mazurkas, spirited polonaises, nocturnes whose dreamy melodies seem spun from silver ...

MALLORCA’S reputation today as a jasmine-scented, jet-set paradise can make it hard to swallow tales of the Spanish island’s formerly hardscrabble history. Frédéric Chopin, who spent the winter of ...