Schedule of final auditions

Behind the scenes notes. 5th day

The first stage of the Competition concluded on Tuesday. Sixteen young pianists from Japan, China, Poland, the U.S.A., Italy, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Czech Republic performed that day.

Chopin for the participants of the Warsaw Uprising

There is much evidence in Fryderyk Chopin's biography of his deep attachment to his homeland. Writing to his family from Vienna at the age of 21, he makes this clear declaration: ‘Malfatti [i.e. the imperial court physician Johann Malfatti, who introduced the young composer to the circles of the artistic elite of Vienna] attempts in vain to convince me that every artist is a cosmopolitan. Even if that were the case, as an artist I am still in the cradle, but as a Pole I have begun my third decade.’