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Chopin’s funeral is celebrated at La Madeleine in Paris

On 30 October 1849 a funeral Mass for Chopin was celebrated at the church of La Madeleine in Paris, with Mozart’s Requiem in the musical plan he had asked friends to arrange, before burial at Père-Lachaise. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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On 30 October 1849 a funeral Mass for Chopin was celebrated at the church of La Madeleine in Paris, with Mozart’s Requiem in the musical plan he had asked friends to arrange, before burial at Père-Lachaise. He is the deceased, not the priest. The row does not treat later tomb tourism or competition galas as this Mass.

Context

A Requiem with women’s voices in 1849 required special permission in a Paris parish church; the organisers obtained it. That is why the Madeleine night is a humanitarian-rite instrument: a foreign invalid received a public Christian burial with the music he named. The heart’s removal to Warsaw is a different medical-religious act stored on its own row.

Shared responsibility is part of Chopin’s funeral is celebrated at La Madeleine in Paris. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1849-10-30 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

High confidence on the date and church. Modest weight: a funeral is not a health system.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Friends and parish clergy staged a public funeral he had wanted with Mozart’s Requiem. He was the dead man, not the celebrant. Complex memorial labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Église de la Madeleine — parish and historyParoisse de la Madeleine · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Frédéric ChopinEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The Madeleine parish’s public history pages locate the church as a nineteenth-century ceremonial parish. Britannica independently dates the 30 October 1849 funeral and the Requiem. Official: https://www.eglise-lamadeleine.com/ (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin (opens in a new tab). The records establish church, date, and musical plan. They do not establish a unique later pilgrimage series as this rite.

Established: Chopin’s funeral Mass was held at La Madeleine on 30 October 1849. A contradictory parish register with another church would change the row.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Funeral rite is not the heart’s removal and not a later competition gala. Mixed effects of Chopin’s funeral is celebrated at La Madeleine in Paris are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFrédéric Chopin
  2. contributed toFactChopin’s funeral is celebrated at La Madeleine in Paris
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Chopin’s funeral is celebrated at La Madeleine in Paris. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-madeleine-funeral-1849

https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-madeleine-funeral-1849

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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