Monsieur Chopin

Set in Chopin’s Paris salon on March 4, 1848 (just days after the February 1848 revolution that toppled the French monarchy), Monsieur Chopin is a journey through the life and the music of an extraordinary composer who created some of the most beautiful and romantic melodies ever written. Hersey Felder as Monsieur Chopin features some of the composer’s greatest works, including a newly-discovered cadenza in Chopin’s own handwriting for his Nocturne in Eb, opus 9/2. The cadenza was uncovered in the collection of one of his student’s families, written in pencil on a first edition print of the Nocturne from 1834, when Chopin first started teaching in Paris.