Nocturne is a candlelight evening concert taking place during the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj. The performances of the pianists are accompanied by a lecture on a selected subject connected with Chopin.
June 22
Born On This Day
1763 | Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (d. 1817)
1830 | Teodor Leszetycki, Polish pianist, composer and pedagogue (d. 1915)
1901 | Luís Armando Rivera, Dominican composer, pianist and violinist (d. 1986)
1915 | Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (d. 2018)
1917 | Jean Hubeau, French composer, pianist and pedagogue (d. 1992)
Died On This Day
1840 | Josef Javůrek, Polish pianist, composer, conductor of Czech origin (b. 1756)
1888 | Edmund Neupert, Norwegian pianist, composer and pedagogue (b. 1842)
2002 | Conrad Hansen, German pianist (b. 1906)
Water, especially the one Frederic Chopin drank in Reinertz (now Duszniki-Zdroj) has a very beneficial effect on our health. There are many theories about the amount of water we should drink a day.
The Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival was first organized in 1946 by Ignacy Potocki. In the post-war period it had a repolonization meaning.
Alexei Sultanov was born on Thursday, August 7, 1969 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. His parents, violinist mother, Natalia Pogorelova and cellist father Faizul Sultanov immediately identified him as a prodigy.
