Swiss physicist finds new Chopin photograph

Swiss physicist finds new Chopin photograph

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norman lebrecht

January 17, 2017

The Institut Polonais in Paris reports that a Swiss enthusiast, Alain Kohler, has come up with a hitherto unknown photograph of Frederic Chopin.

The Daguerrotype portrait was taken in or around 1847 in the Paris workshop of Louis-Auguste Bisson.

Chopin looks less haggard that usual, and rather annoyed.

Dr Kohler was previously responsible for discovering a lost Chopin piano.

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