![]() The composer did not first consider her attractive. She was a French Romantic writer, noted for her numerous love affairs with such prominent figures as Prosper Merimée, Alfred de Musset (1833–34), Alexandre Manceau (1849–65), and others. In that same year, at a party hosted by Countess Marie d'Agoult, mistress of fellow composer Franz Liszt, Chopin met Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, better known by her pseudonym as George Sand. In 1836 Chopin was secretly engaged to a seventeen-year-old Polish girl named Maria Wodzinska. He was also friends with composers Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann, and although he was at times critical of their music, Chopin dedicated some of his own compositions to them. Among his closest friends were opera composer Vincenzo Bellini (beside whom he is buried in the Père Lachaise), and painter Eugène Delacroix. By 1838 Chopin had become a famous figure in Paris. He completed several of his most famous works and also performed regular concerts, to rave reviews. The early and mid-1830s in Paris were a productive time for the composer. It is also at this time that he began his lifelong struggle with tuberculosis. He began work on his first scherzi and ballades as well as the first book of études. By 1831 Chopin had left Poland for good and settled in Paris. ![]() The following year he returned to Warsaw and performed the premiere of his Piano Concerto in F Minor at the National Theater on March 17. In 1831 he left Poland for Vienna before settling in Paris where he spent much of his life.Ĭhopin first visited Vienna in early 1829, where he gave a piano performance and received his first favorable reviews. In the autumn of 1826, Chopin began studying music theory, figured bass, and composition with the composer Józef Elsner (born 1769 in Silesia) at the Warsaw Conservatory. From 1823 to 1826, Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where his father was a professor. This renowned pianist and professor at the Warsaw Conservatory gave Chopin valuable (although irregular) lessons in playing organ, and possibly piano. The further development of Chopin's talent was supervised by Wilhelm Würfel (born 1791 in Bohemia). The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin, taken during the degenerative stages of his tuberculosis 7-year-old Chopin replied, "My collar." His first professional piano lessons, given to him by the violinist Wojciech Żywny (born 1756 in Bohemia), lasted from 1816 to 1822, when the teacher was no longer able to give any more help to the pupil whose skills surpassed his own. At one concert, he is said to have been asked what he thought the audience liked best. He also began giving public charity concerts. The prodigy was featured in the Warsaw newspapers, and "little Chopin" became the attraction at receptions given in the aristocratic salons of the capital. At the age of 7, he was already the author of two polonaises (in G minor and B-flat major), the first being published in the engraving workshop of Father Cybulski. The musical talent of young Chopin became apparent early on and can be compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. He was born to Mikołaj (Nicolas) Chopin, a Polonized Frenchman and to his Polish mother, Tekla Justyna Krzyżanowska. Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in central Poland near Sochaczew, in the region of Mazovia, which was part of the Duchy of Warsaw. However, his baptismal certificate, written several weeks after his birth, lists his birthdate as February 22. According to the artist himself and his family, Chopin was born on March 1, 1810. ![]()
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