Chopin’s heart revisited

Seattle author, pianist and physician Steve Lagerberg has written a book Chopin’s Heart: The Quest to Identify the Mysterious Illness of the World’s Most Beloved Composer. Chopin’s body rests in Paris, but his heart in Poland. The heart was recently secretly exhumed (again) to try to determine whether Chopin did indeed die from tuberculosis.

Click here to read this intriguing story.

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