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Plans are well underway for a year of celebrations to mark the upcoming bicentennial of one of Poland’s favorite native sons—Frederic Chopin. The Polish Parliament has declared 2010 the Year of Frederic Chopin, and special concerts, recitals, conferences and other events will honor the great romantic composer, who was born near Warsaw in 1810.The prestigious International Chopin Competition for pianists will mark its 16th edition in October 2010. held every five years, the competition draws scores of young musicians from all over the world. In addition, Warsaw’s Chopin Museum, with the world’s largest collection of Chopin documents and other artifacts, will undergo a total redesign, modernization and expansion.A lavishly illustrated new guidebook named Chopin’s Poland was already published this year. It leads visitors to dozens of sites in Warsaw and elsewhere around the country where the composer lived, ate, studied, performed, visited or even partied.“Actually, Chopin doesn’t need to be promoted, but we hope that Poland and Polish culture can be promoted through Chopin,” said Monika Strugala, who is coordinating the Chopin 2010 program under the aegis of the Frederic Chopin Institute, a body set up by the parliament in 2010 to promote and protect Chopin’s work and image.“We want to confirm to all that he is a very, very important Polish symbol,” she said. Indeed, it’s not much of an exaggeration to say that Chopin’s music flows through the Polish national consciousness like some sort of cultural lifeblood.The son of a Polish mother and a French émigré father, Chopin was born in a manor house at Zelazowa Wola, about 50 kilometers, or 30 miles, west of Warsaw, and moved to Warsaw as an infant.The manor is something of a Chopin shrine—since the 1930s it has been a museum and concert center. Like the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, it, too is undergoing extensive renovation as part of bicentennial preparations.Chopin spent his first 20 years in and around Warsaw. He was alre