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The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Pl. Pilsudskiego 9
00-078 Warszawa
Poland
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The Fryderyk Chopin Institute was established in 2001. Realising the Parliament’s recommendations, it inspires and leads research into the oeuvre and figure of Fryderyk Chopin. It protects and promotes his memory and his work, gathers archive materials and museum objects connected with him, and presides over the Chopin museums in Warsaw and his birthplace of Żelazowa Wola. It promotes the performance of Chopin’s works and is releasing a series of new recordings. With the aim of disseminating knowledge about the composer and his oeuvre, it organises numerous concerts, conferences and academic gatherings, as well as educational competitions designed to spread knowledge of Fryderyk Chopin among children and youngsters. The wealth of publications issued by the Institute include both scholarly and popular works. A key part of its work involves the promotion of Fryderyk Chopin’s music around the world, in collaboration with Chopin-related institutions and organisations abroad. It also regulates the use of Fryderyk Chopin’s likeness and name. Widespread interest has been generated by the Online Chopin Information Centre, set up in 2003: www.nifc.pl
Among the Institute’s many achievements over the six years of its existence, it is worth presenting a few which have already caught the public’s attention. These undoubtedly include the pioneering scholarly publishing project Works by Chopin. Facsimile Edition, aimed at preserving in print all the composer’s available music manuscripts, belonging to collections from eight countries, and providing them with scholarly commentaries (in six languages). Another undertaking is the series of CDs The Complete Works on Historical Instruments, presenting recordings of performances of Chopin’s works by outstanding pianists on excellently preserved pianos made by Chopin’s favourite firms: an Erard from 1849 and a Pleyel from 1848. The first CDs in the series allow us to enter the soundworld experienced and created by Fryderyk Chopin.
The results of original research are presented in the published texts from the annual international academic conferences. Pioneering research is also continuing into Fryderyk Chopin’s personal and social environment, which has remained insufficiently studied for years. The fruits of this work are enhancing and changing our knowledge of the composer’s family and social milieu.
Today, the work of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute is geared primarily towards the grand project Fryderyk Chopin 2010. The aim of this project, in cooperation with many partners at home and abroad, is to prepare the programme for Chopin Year - the commemoration in Poland and abroad of the bicentenary of the Polish composer’s birth. In 2005, this task received the crucial support of the Polish government, in the form of the five-year programme Dziedzictwo Fryderyka Chopina 2010, guaranteeing a suitably grand setting for the jubilee celebrations. This programme is being realised by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in collaboration with The Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw, thus benefiting from over seventy years’ experience gained by this institution and its staff.
The government programme set The Fryderyk Chopin Institute a number of challenges with a specific, organisational-management character. Perhaps the greatest challenge of all is the creation of the Chopin Centre in Warsaw. This will house the most important institutions linked to the heritage of Fryderyk Chopin, such as The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, The Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw, a multimedia library with bibliographic, phonographic and iconographic collections, the Foundation for the National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin, the Polish Chopin Academy, the International Federation of Chopin Societies, a concert-conference hall and even a specialised tourist information centre.
The government programme also includes transforming the Ostrogski Castle into a modern Fryderyk Chopin Museum worthy of the capital. The same line of thinking lies behind the modernisation of Fryderyk Chopin’s Birthplace at Żelazowa Wola (making use of the results of the latest research into the history of this monumental building) and the revitalisation of its grounds. The modernisation programme also extends to the palace at Sanniki and the manor at Szafarnia, made famous by Chopin’s stays there. A separate focus of attention is the forthcoming Chopin Year, and the direct responsibility for organising a whole cycle of events: from the Ten Days of Chopin, linking the two recorded dates of the composer’s birth (22 February and 1 March), and the official inaugural concert on 1 March, to the climax of the jubilee celebrations: The Sixteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, in October 2010.
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