![]() ![]() In 2014, a team of medical experts received permission to remove Chopin’s preserved heart from the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, where it had ultimately been interred, and examine it for clues that might shed light on the mysterious ailment that led to Chopin’s death at the age of 39. Chopin’s sister complied, arranging for her brother’s heart to be preserved in an alcoholic liquid-possibly cognac-and bringing it to Poland herself. ![]() Chopin at 25, by his fiancée Maria Wodzińska.īefore he died on October 17, 1849, Frédéric Chopin made an unusual request: He wanted his heart to be removed from his corpse and transported from Paris, where the famed composer had lived and worked for nearly 20 years, to his native Poland. ![]()
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