"Little Chopin" started giving public concerts at the age of sevenб thus prompting comparisons with the young Mozart and Chopin’s contemporary, Beethoven. Chopin always spoke of Żywny with great respect, in spite of the fact that his own skills very soon surpassed those of his teacher.
Chopin music period professional#
The respected elderly Wojciech Żywny became his first professional piano teacher. His older sister Ludwika (English"Louise") gave Chopin his first piano lessons. One way or another, from the early childhood he was surrounded by creative atmosphere, and became acquainted with classical music. Six year old Chopin was trying to imitate what he had heard from his mother, and even to make his own melodies. Chopin's contemporary and a musician Józef Sikorski recalled in his Memoir (Wspomnienie Chopina), that Chopin displayed his deepest and most sincere emotions when Chopin’s mother was playing this instrument. She also played the piano and the boy would often listen to his mother playing. His father played the violin and flute and his mother gave music lessons to the boys at the boarding house for aristocrats, which was operated by the Chopins. George Sand once even said that Chopin was even "more Polish than Poland", a phrase borrowed by Louis Enault, Chopin’s biographer.Įach member of the Chopin family had an artistic inclination. In spite of his father’s occupation and French origin, his son would never speak French as well as the Frenchmen, Polish culture, language, and spirit prevailed in their home. Future composer would attend the Lyceum in the period between 18. The family was offered spacious apartment in the same building, which housed the University. Since 1817, Chopin’s father combined his work at the Palace with his duties at the Lyceum of Warsaw, where he began teaching as well. Frédéric was at that time only seven months old. In the autumn of 1810, the family went to reside on the grounds of the Saxon Palace, where Chopin’s father worked as a French-language teacher. In the period between 18 the Chopins would live next to the grandiose Kazimierz Palace in the University building in Warsaw, which is now embellished with Chopin’s profile. The composer himself would give March 1 as his birthday. Some specialists argue as to the true date of his birth: the church document states it as 22 February, while the family records put it as 1 March. Their second child Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born in 1810. Justyna and Mikołaj got married in the 16th-century Brochów basilica, a place where their son will later be baptized. The famous Union General of the United States Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski also originated from the family of Justyna's brother. He worked subsequently as a private teacher to the children of rich aristocrats, including the Skarbeks the female representative of this impoverished family, Justyna Krzyżanowska, he would later marry. In 1787 the sixteen year old Chopin moved to Poland and served in the National Guard in the period of Kościuszko’s Uprising. Mikołaj Chopin, his father was a Frenchman by origin, and was born in Lorraine. The birthplace of Frédéric Chopin is a town with the name Żelazowa Wola, situated fifty kilometers from Warsaw, which at that time belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw.
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