NEW DISCOVERY
 Research in 2003 shows that Jenny Lind,
the Swedish soprano and philanthropist travelled in May 1849, shortly after her
opera farewell in London and with the knowledge of Queen Victoria, incognito to Paris in
an unsuccessful attempt to marry the ailing Chopin. This hitherto unknown historical information was
reviewed with Chopin experts at a roundtable and press conference convened by the Fryderyk
Chopin Institute on 1 March 2004 at the Warsaw Philharmonic. The new discovery was
celebrated at the premiere of the musical drama "Nightingale Opus 24" at the
Swedish Embassy in Warsaw on 6
April 2004 with an international audience. The findings were also reveiwed with
musicologists in Edinburgh on 11 January 2005.
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