The Fryderyk Chopin Institute is the greatest Chopin centre in the world, which fully and comprehensively promotes, protects, investigates and popularizes the heritage of Fryderyk Chopin. The multidimensional and differentiated activity of the Institute is the answer to the work and life of the composer – rich, ambiguous, being a challenge and task for the next generations of listeners, performers and scientists, fascinated by this music and figure.

The trend of the publishing and scientific activity of the Institute comprises, among others, the organisation of the international conferences and musicological symposia, publication of constantly developing series of academic and popular books, and especially important, planned for dozens of years project of publishing the facsimiles of all remained musical manuscripts of Chopin.