Memorials to Frédéric Chopin

Chopin's Polish residences

Physical monuments

Poland

• Chopin's heart, preserved in alcohol, was sealed in 1882 within a pillar of the Holy Cross Church, behind a tablet carved by Leonard Marconi. The tablet bears an inscription from Matthew VI:21: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
• The Holy Cross Church stands only a short distance from Chopin's last Warsaw residence, the Krasiński Palace, which bears a plaque commemorating Chopin.
• There are three Chopin monuments in Żelazowa Wola: an obelisk from 1894, a bronze statue from 1969 and a sandstone bust from 1984.
• There is a monument to Chopin at the Szafarnia manor house where he stayed for holidays with a schoolfriend in 1824 and 1825.
• In 1897 a Chopin memorial was erected in the town of Duszniki-Zdrój, where in 1826, 16-year-old Chopin played his first concert outside of the Russian Partition of Poland. A Chopin statue was erected in 1976 and it stands in the Spa Park in front of the Fryderyk Chopin Theatre.
• In 1926 a bronze statue of Chopin, designed by sculptor Wacław Szymanowski in 1907, was erected in the upper part of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park.
• Other statues and busts of Chopin stand in Poznań, Wrocław, Żychlin, Antonin, Brdów, Radziejowice, Międzyzdroje, Bydgoszcz, Słupsk, Ustka, Kraków.
• For the 2010 bicentennial of Chopin's birth, 14 "Chopin's Warsaw" benches were placed in Warsaw near Chopin landmarks. They stand near Chopin landmarks such as the Krasiński Palace, the Carmelite Church where he played organ as a boy, and the Wessel Palace where in 1830 he boarded a stage for Vienna. Pressing a button on a bench makes it play a few bars of a Chopin composition.
• Memorial plaques in Warsaw, Antonin, Toruń, Kalisz, Sanniki, Sulechów, Silna, Wrocław, Poznań.
• Monument in Poturzyn, commemorating a visit in 1830.
• Memorial stones in Kozłowo, Waplewo Wielkie and Strzyżew.
• In 2007, a bronze bust of Frédéric Chopin, the patron of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, by sculptor Gennady Jerszow was placed in the Philharmonic in Gdańsk.
• Obelisks in the Chopin Park in Gliwice and in Sochaczew.

  Europe

• France: Chopin's tombstone in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Auguste Clésinger. Monuments to Chopin can also be found in Paris's Parc Monceau and Jardin du Luxembourg. Also the Salon Frédéric Chopin at the Polish Library in Paris.
• United Kingdom: monument and blue plaques in London, monument in Manchester, memorial plaques in Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Spain: busts in Valldemossa and Palma de Mallorca, memorial plaque in Barcelona
• Germany: statue in Munich's Dichtergarten, memorial plaque in Dresden, bust in Berlin's Hackesche Höfe
• Albania: bust in Tirana
• Hungary: monument in Gödöllő, bust in Budapest
• Serbia: bust in Belgrade
• Portugal: bust in Lisbon
• Netherlands: bust in Culemborg
• Czech Republic: memorial plaques in Prague and Mariánské Lázně
• Austria: memorial plaque in Vienna
• Ukraine: tenement house relief in Lviv, memorial plaque in Lutsk
• Russia: bust in Kaliningrad

  North America

• The Chopin Theatre, Chopin Park, Chopin School, and Chopin Plaza, all in Chicago, are named in the composer's honor – testimony to the influence of Chicago's Polish Community. A Chopin statue is planned for Chicago's lakefront.
• San José, Costa Rica

  Asia

• Hamamatsu
• Shanghai
• Singapore

  South America

• Buenos Aires
• Porto Alegre
• Punta del Este
• Rio de Janeiro
• Santiago
• São Paulo

  Musical homage

• Sergei Lyapunov, Żelazowa Wola, Op. 37, a symphonic poem composed in 1909 to commemorate Chopin's birth centenary the following year.

  Musical institutions

• The largest Polish music conservatory is named Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.
• The world's oldest monographic music competition, the International Chopin Piano Competition, founded in 1927, is held every five years in Warsaw. Periodically the Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin is awarded for notable Chopin recordings.
• The Chopin Festival, founded in 1946, is held annually in the Fryderyk Chopin Theatre in Duszniki-Zdrój.

  Chopin societies

• Museums

• The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, established in 1954, is housed in Warsaw's Ostrogski Palace, seat of the Fryderyk Chopin Society. The Museum was refurbished in 2010 for the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth.
• in Żelazowa Wola is operated as a museum by the Fryderyk Chopin Museum.
• The Museum also maintains the in the Krasiński Palace, Warsaw.
• Salon Frédéric Chopin, Paris
• , Valldemossa Charterhouse, Majorca - the rooms where Chopin and George Sand stayed are laid out as a museum, including Chopin's Pleyel piano.
• The Polish Library in Paris houses a permanent exhibition, the only one in France, dedicated to the composer.

  Other

• Warsaw Chopin Airport
• the Chopin crater on Mercury
• asteroid 3784 Chopin.
• Rose "Chopin"