Chopin and Warsaw

There is an anachronism and a mix-up in the reference to "Chopin's Warsaw Concerto" (Gandhi Sukardi's letter in The Jakarta Post of Sept. 1).

Frederic Chopin composed two concertos for piano and orchestra in the late 1820s before he left Warsaw, Poland, on a concert tour, never to return to his homeland. He did not give any titles to his concertos.

More than 100 years later British composer Richard Addinsell wrote his Warsaw Concerto in 1941 as incidental music to the World War II film Dangerous Moonlight. (Not to be confused with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata for solo piano written more than 100 years earlier.)

S. HARMONO

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