# Chopin’s funeral is celebrated at La Madeleine in Paris

Date: 1849

## The fact

On 30 October 1849 a funeral Mass for [Chopin](/people/frederic-chopin) was celebrated at the church of La Madeleine in Paris, with [Mozart](/people/wolfgang-amadeus-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. Do not treat a later restoration of the tomb as 1849. Do not treat UNESCO or museum openings as this Mass. Jane Stirling and musician friends organised what the dead man asked for; he remains the deceased, not the celebrant, and Père-Lachaise is burial after the rite, not a twin Fact.

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.

## Evidence and sources

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/. Independent: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin. The records establish church, date, and musical plan. They do not establish a unique later pilgrimage series as this rite.

Official or archival record: Église de la Madeleine — parish and history (https://www.eglise-lamadeleine.com/; Paroisse de la Madeleine).

## Significance

Improving humanitarian-rite path: public burial dignity with requested music. High confidence on the date and church. Modest weight: a funeral is not a health system.

## What is established and what is not

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.

The attached driver is [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Frédéric Chopin: https://factrail.ai/people/frederic-chopin

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.eglise-lamadeleine.com/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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