Uncovering The Heart Of Chopin — Literally — npr.org

Composer and pianist Frederic Chopin, who died in 1849. General Photographic Agency/Getty Images hide caption Composer and pianist Frederic Chopin, who died in 1849. News broke today of a clandestine exhumation of composer Frédéric Chopin's heart in Warsaw in April 2014. Presided over by a mix of scientists, clergy and scholars, this mysterious event took place in the middle of the night and seems, in its retelling, like something out of a Dan Brown novel — a mix of mysticism and cloak-and-dagger secrecy.

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