Chopin's Heart

Chopin was born in 1810 on a country farm near Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French father. He died on October 17, 1849 in Paris aged 39 and his funeral was held in the church of Santa Magdalena de Paris on the 30th, during the interment (at Père-Lachaise Cemetery) the Funeral March from his Sonata Op 35 was played. Just before he died he asked that his heart be separated from his body and returned to his beloved homeland. It was deposited in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, under a pillar with the biblical inscription "Where your treasure is, there is your heart''. As a curiosity, Polish