或许很多外行人是从美国奥斯卡获奖影片《钢琴家》开始认识肖邦的音乐的。片中,当德国军官得知自己面前这个瘦弱的犹太人是钢琴家时,便请他弹点儿什么。钢琴家略微迟疑了一阵,随后坐在钢琴边上弹了起来。在生命行将结束之时,他弹奏的是肖邦的《G小调第一 Perhaps many lay people started to recognize Chopin’s music from the Academy Award-winning American pianist. In the film, when the German officer learned that the thin, thin Jew before him was a pianist, he asked him to play something. Pianist hesitated for a while, then sat on the edge of the piano. At the end of his life, he played Chopin’s “G minor first.”