Frederic Chopin

WARSAW, POLAND - MARCH 04: (POLAND AND RUSSIA OUT) Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the world's great composers for piano. The urn with Chopin's heart in the Holy Cross Church. The heart of the composer was brought to Poland by his sister Ludvica. The inscription was founded in by the Warsaw Music Society, and the sculpture is 1880 by Leonard Marconi. Probably during the Warsaw uprising the urn was saved by Wilm Hosenfeld, German officer who also saved Wladyslaw Szpilman, the jewish pianist.on March 04, 2010 (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)