Chopin's Pickled Heart Reveals Cause of His Death
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | November 16, 2017 07:19am ET
Chopin's heart has remained in a crypt at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland, since 1945.
Polish composer Frédéric Chopin has had a strange afterlife.
He died and was buried in Paris in 1849. But in a romantic gesture to his homeland, his heart was put in a glass jar and smuggled into Warsaw, then under the rule of Imperial Russia. Strangely enough, the Nazis allowed Chopin's heart to be put in safekeeping during the Warsaw Uprising. And since 1945, it has remained in a crypt at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw like a holy relic.
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