Frédéric Chopin's tomb in Père Lachaise is one of the most visited graves in the world, which tells you something about the hold this Polish-born composer still exerts over Paris.

He died here in 1849 at just 39, from tuberculosis, having spent nearly his entire adult life in France. His funeral at the Madeleine drew a packed house, his own Funeral March played in his honour. But his heart was removed and sent home to Warsaw, where it remains in Holy Cross Church.

The tomb itself is presided over by a white marble figure of Euterpe, the muse of music, weeping over a broken lyre. Fitting, given what was lost.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace Chopin's life in Paris: his decade-long affair with the writer George Sand, his rivalry-tinged friendship with the flamboyant Liszt, and what it meant to compose almost entirely in the dark.