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\n<\/span><\/p>\nSix letters written by Frederic Chopin, thought to be lost in 1939, have been found and donated to a Warsaw museum dedicated to the Polish composer.<\/p>\n
The letters, written by Chopin to his parents and sisters between 1845 and 1848, were believed lost after the outbreak of World War II.<\/p>\n
After it emerged in 2003 that they still existed in a private collection, moves were made to secure them.<\/p>\n
Chopin was born in Poland in 1810 but spent half of his life in France.<\/p>\n
According to museum curator Alicja Knast, the letters were last displayed in public in Poland in 1932 and were still confirmed as being in Warsaw in 1939.<\/p>\n
It is thought the letters went missing, like many other cultural artefacts, after the Nazis invaded Poland.<\/p>\n
The museum was assisted in their recovery by Marek Keller, a Polish art dealer now based in Mexico.<\/p>\n
He acquired them directly from their owners, whom Knast said wished to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
In the letters, written in Polish, Chopin describes daily life and his cello sonata in G minor, one of his few non-piano works.<\/p>\n
The collection, which includes letters from Chopin’s pupil Jane Stirling to his sister Ludwika, will be on display at the museum until 25 April.<\/p>\n
Some of Chopin’s letters were written in Nohant in central France, birthplace of his lover Amantine Dupin – aka writer George Sand.<\/p>\n
Later this year Jeremy Irons and Sharon Stone will take part in a theatrical evening devoted to their romance at the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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