A musical amphitheatre in a garden setting

The surroundings of the Chopin monument were designed
as a musical amphitheatre in a garden setting. The auditorium is composed of
rose beds laid out around the monument in the form of seating in an amphitheatre.
The pedestal of the monument serves as the stage. This concept dates back to the
1920s and is attributed to the architect Oskar Sosnowski (1880–1939), founder
of the Department of Polish Architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic (now the Warsaw
University of Technology). In the early 1960s his idea was masterfully
reconstructed and implemented by Longin Majdecki (1925–1997), using his skills
as a landscape architect, gardener and conservator of historic garden layouts.