Last Words
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
by Anna Golka
Chopin died on October 17th, 1849 at 2 a.m. in his apartment at 12 Place Vendome. Before he died he wished that his heart be taken back to Poland and Mozart’s Requiem performed at his funeral. He remained conscious to the end but he felt more and more weak.
His last words were “mother, my poor mother… “, for he thought consciously of his mother and it is with these words on his lips that he gave up his soul to God. He loved his family deeply and he new they loved him. His heart was torn at the thought of the terrible blow his death would be to his beloved mother.
According to his wish, his heart was placed in a glass urn and taken back to Poland by his sister Ludwika, and it was placed in the pillar of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, where it remains to this day.
Chopin‘s funeral was on October 30th and his body was laid to rest at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Among numerous articles that appeared in the French and Polish press, after the Chopin’s death, paying the last homage to his genius, were words of a polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid “Frederick Chopin", he wrote, "a citizen of Warsaw by birth, a Pole at heart, but a citizen of the World by virtue of his talent, has left this world”.
by Anna Golka
Chopin died on October 17th, 1849 at 2 a.m. in his apartment at 12 Place Vendome. Before he died he wished that his heart be taken back to Poland and Mozart’s Requiem performed at his funeral. He remained conscious to the end but he felt more and more weak.
His last words were “mother, my poor mother… “, for he thought consciously of his mother and it is with these words on his lips that he gave up his soul to God. He loved his family deeply and he new they loved him. His heart was torn at the thought of the terrible blow his death would be to his beloved mother.
According to his wish, his heart was placed in a glass urn and taken back to Poland by his sister Ludwika, and it was placed in the pillar of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, where it remains to this day.
Chopin‘s funeral was on October 30th and his body was laid to rest at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Among numerous articles that appeared in the French and Polish press, after the Chopin’s death, paying the last homage to his genius, were words of a polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid “Frederick Chopin", he wrote, "a citizen of Warsaw by birth, a Pole at heart, but a citizen of the World by virtue of his talent, has left this world”.