{"id":3043,"date":"2008-07-27T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/scientists-want-to-test-dna-on-chopins-heart\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T00:07:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T06:07:58","slug":"scientists-want-to-test-dna-on-chopins-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/scientists-want-to-test-dna-on-chopins-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Test DNA on Chopin&#8217;s Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dna.jpg\" title=\"dna.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dna.jpg\" alt=\"dna.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WARSAW, Poland<\/strong> &#8212; Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s how the Polish government wants to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists want to remove the heart for DNA tests to see if Chopin actually died from cystic fibrosis and not tuberculosis as his death certificate states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080726\/chopin_heart_080726\/20080726?hub=SciTech\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Article on Chopin&#8217;s Heart DNA Testing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A couple interesting notes on Chopin &#8211; He had monstrous hands. I remember reading where he could stretch an octave and a sixth (an &#8220;18th&#8221; comfortably). My hands are fairly large and I can only play a tenth at the same time with one hand comfortably. You can find casts of his hand online that were taken at his death. I have also read he was very slow and meticulous in his composing &#8211; which is understandable given his monstrous musical runs for both hands.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had asked me recently if I had played much Chopin &#8211; I&#8217;ve played many of the nocturnes but only a few of the Etudes. The Etudes are easy to bull your way through, but to play them note for note correctly in a concert setting is very challenging I think. I remember learning the Revolutionary Etude and the Butterfly (Black Key) Etudes when I was younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 WARSAW, Poland &#8212; Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39. And that&#8217;s how the Polish government wants to keep it. Scientists want to remove the heart for DNA tests to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-N5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}