Warsaw – the composer’s city

The restoration of the sculptural image of Fryderyk
Chopin in Warsaw, dismantled by the German occupying forces, was symbolic, all
the more so because the funds for this purpose were raised in a national collection
coordinated by the capital’s Fund for the Reconstruction of the City.
Rebuilding was also possible because, in the new political reality, the general
public’s natural need to regain lost signs of the continuity of tradition and
heritage met the demands of the state’s socialist realist cultural policy, in
which Fryderyk Chopin was to play an important role.