Classical Music Buzz > classicalive > Chopin at 200
When I think of Chopin's music, its mournful, melancholic quality tends to come to mind first. I also think of the extraordinary universality of this quality. At King Chulalongkorn’s funeral in Bangkok on March 16, 1911 (above), a ceremony that intentionally departed from the king's penchant for Western pomp by highlighting the vernacular traditions of Brahmanic ritual, Chopin’s Funeral March somehow still made it onto the program.



I also think of the utter beauty and lyricism of his Cello Sonata in G minor. The great Piatigorsky:

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