Chopin's legacy allows us to delve not only into the musician's life but also into that of 19th century Europe. This digital platform offers more than two hundred thousand pages dedicated to the musical production of Frédéric Chopin, his personal life and his legacy in the world.
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00:00There are some very nice digital platforms concerning the most important figures of musical
00:09work like Johann Sebastian Bach or Mozart or Beethoven, but I think our database is
00:14the biggest digital base concerning just one composer, Friedrich Chopin, in the digital
00:19world for now.
00:22Those are the materials, just a small part of our collections.
00:26We have a great collection of photographs of Chopin's letters and Chopin's music, but
00:31we also have medals with Chopin's image on them.
00:34We also had to digitize those kind of materials and to describe them, to make them researchable.
00:42And probably the most important things, most important resources from our library are the
00:48musical prints and those are actually the first editions of Chopin's music.
00:53This one is the opus 46, which was published in 1831 and it was published in Germany.
01:02And here we have the whole collection of French prints, also from early 40s of the 19th century.
01:09So this is just one volume from our collection of Revues et Gazettes Musicales.
01:16This is the volume from, I think, 1846 and it presents all the important events that
01:25were happening in Paris at that time, so artistic life, musical life of Paris.
01:31We have 60 volumes of those papers and this is the biggest collection of these titles
01:37in the world.