Chopin 3 The score on the back of the above banknote. Arthur Rubenstein plays Chopin Polonaise in Ab Major Op 53 Heroic
10 Zlotych 1940 Fryderyk Chopin
The reverse of the note shows a monument to Chopin, depicting him under a willow tree. This is of an actual monument in Łazienki Park, aka Royal Baths Park, in Warsaw. Purposely destroyed by the occupying Nazis in WWII, it was recast and erected on the same spot in 1958. Oddly, this note commemorating the statue/monument was produced while under German Occupation.
While there are rather a lot of statues and monuments to Chopin throguhout the world, an interesting sideline is that this particular statue has two exact counterparts, one in Grant Park Chicago, Illinois and another in Hamamatsu, Japan.
20 Zlotych 2009 Fryderyk Chopin
100000 Zlotych Stanislaw Moniuszko
Links to Music:
Moniuszko 1 Stanisław Moniuszko – Overture for “Halka”