 At the death of the composer-pianist Frédéric Chopin on 17 October 1849, Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his hands.He also sculpted, in 1850, the white marble funerary monument of "Euterpe", the muse of music, for Chopin's grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.Clésinger died in Paris on 5 January 1883.