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It's a mystery that involves a musical genius, his pickled heart and what exactly killed him.
A forthcoming paper in the American Journal of Medicine settles on complications from tuberculosis as Frederic Chopin's cause of death--not an unexpected conclusion since the great Polish composer and patriot was known to suffer from the disease.
While Chopin was buried in Paris in the famed Pere Lachaise Cemetery in 1849, for most of the time since his heart...