Fryderyk Chopin was born in Kasper Skarbek’s manor in Żelazowa Wola – his family lived there, as the father of the future composer was the tutor of the Skarbeks’ children. However, after only a few months, the whole family moved to Warsaw, where Mikołaj Chopin worked as a French teacher. The clan lived in the right wing of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw.
The capital is still full of traces of the most famous Polish composer. In anticipation of the New Year’s concert of the Viennese Philharmonic, in the new episode of “POPKultury” we will take you on a tour of places related to Fryderyk Chopin:
Fryderyk Chopin began learning to play the piano very early – he was only five at the time. His first teacher was his mother, and later Wojciech Żtywny took over this role. At the very beginning, the young adept learned mainly from the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Amadeus Mozart. At the age of seven he was already the author of several works. They were polonaises, and the Polonaise in G minor was the first to be published. Since then, the genius boy began to perform in the homes of the Warsaw nobility and various representatives of the aristocracy.
In 1823, he began studying at the Warsaw Lyceum, and three years later Chopin began attending the Central School of Music in Warsaw, where he apprenticed for three years. He was educated precisely at the department of “theory of music, general bass and composition” – the department was headed by Józef Elsner at that time. Due to his outstanding abilities, Chopin was excused from learning to play the instrument. At that time, folk accents are very clear in his work.
After completing his studies, Chopin left for Vienna – he was 20 at the time and did not know that he would never return to Poland. It was in Austria that his compositions were first published abroad. A year later, Fryderyk left for Paris, where he gradually gained more and more fame thanks to his virtuosity and unparalleled ability to improvise music. But his health was failing. He finally died in 1849 of persistent tuberculosis. His body was laid to rest in Père-Lachaise Cemetery. However, the composer’s sister brought an urn with his heart to Warsaw, which was deposited in the Church of St. Cross at Krakowskie Przedmieście.
Source: Gazeta
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