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The 200-year anniversary of Chopin's birthday will be commemorated all over the world.

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HONORARY COMMITTEE

At the request of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Icons of Europe proposed in June 2006 how an Honorary Committee - with a global membership representing the fields of culture, science, business and government - could "reinforce the international dimension of the Chopin 2010 bicentenary".*

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* The proposal on the Chopin 2010 Honorary Committee draws on the experience of the Hans Christian Andersen 200-year anniversary in 2005. - In that context, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC) invited the founders of Icons of Europe to become "honorary advisors" to the Chopin 2010 bicentenary (NIFC letter of 12 May 2006). NOTE: The year 2010 will also see the 150-year anniversary of the birthday of Ignacy Jan Paderewski (18 November, 1860 - 29 June, 1941).
Justyna Chopin (1782-1861), Chopin's mother.According to his baptismal certificate, Fryderyk François Chopin was born at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, on 22 February 1810 at six o'clock in the evening.  Fiddlers arrived on sledges to play outside the window.  The Countess of Skarbek became his godmother.
However, Chopin insisted later that his mother had recorded the birthday as 1 March, and that date has been adopted as his official birthday. Chopin died on 17 October 1849.
Photo by Jan Mieczkowski, 15 October 1894.The unveiling of Chopin's memorial obelisk in the garden of his birthplace at Zelazowa Wola in 1894.

Icons of Europe's research has shown it was no coincidence that Jenny Lind's memorial was unveiled at Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London, the very same year.