Fryderyk Chopin

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The concerts Chopin gave in Vienna, when he was nineteen, definitely paved the way for him to further his illustrious career. No less relevant – and perhaps even more so – for shaping his approach to the piano and getting him used to performing on stage were his childhood and youthful performances in his home city.

Chopin began performing in public as a charming boy who won the admiration of the Warsaw reviewers and the beautiful ladies in whose salons he played. ‘[…] our Frederick – Chopinek (diminutive of Chopin) they called him – became more than ever the pet of the aristocracy of Warsaw’, claims Frederick Niecks, one of the great composer’s first biographers. ‘He was invited to the houses of the Princes Czartoryski, Sapieha, Czetwertyński, Lubecki, Radziwiłł, the Counts Skarbek, Wolicki, Pruszak, Hussarzewski, Łempicki, and others.

The list of places where Chopin appeared – beginning with palaces and ending with the National Theatre, the most important stage in the capital at the time – is a long one. To follow their trail is to take a journey into the musical life of rich and colourful nineteenth-century Warsaw, the ‘Paris of the North’ as it was once known.

Belweder. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Belweder. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Bird’s-eye view of Błękitny Palace. (creative commons)
Błękitny Palace (1843-1888), Juliusz Volmar Fleck . POLONA.
Błekitny Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Brühl Palace, postcard before 1906. Polish Digital National Library Polona.
Church of St. Joseph and the Visitationists. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Church of St. Joseph and the Visitationists. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Information plaque. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Jabłonowski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Jabłonowski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Jabłonowski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Józef Piłsudski Monument. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 62. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 62. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 62. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krasiński Square. Place where was situated National Theatre. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krasiński Square. Place where was situated National Theatre. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Lubomirski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Lubomirski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Lubomirski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Marcin Zaleski, Krasiński Square with the Church of the Piarist, oil painting, 1830, collections of the National Museum in Warsaw.
Memorial plaque. Phot. Adrian Grycuk.
Memorial plaque. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski. Phot. Wademar Kielichowski.
Namiestnikowski Palace, present Presidential Palace. Phot. Wademar Kielichowski.
Namiestnikowski Palace, present Presidential Palace. Phot. Wademar Kielichowski.
National Theatre in the Krasiński Square, Zygmunt Vogel. POLONA
Place where there was the Conservatory. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated Brühl Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated Brühl Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
St. Anna Church and Warsaw Conservatory, postcard from 1939. POLONA.
St. Anna Church. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
The Holy Trinity Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
The Holy Trinity Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
The Holy Trinity Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
The ‘Old’ Merchants’ Guild. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
The ‘Old’ Merchants’ Guild. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
View from Królewska Street. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.

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Fryderyk Chopin – Ecossaise in D flat major Op. 72 No. 3 [WN 13b] (1826, 1830?) – Tatiana Shebanova (piano Erard, 1849), NIFCCD005, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Fryderyk Chopin – Polonaise in B flat minor [WN 10] (1826) – Tatiana Shebanova (piano Erard, 1849), NIFCCD018, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Fryderyk Chopin – Polonaise in G sharp minor [WN 5] (1824) – Tatiana Shebanova (piano Erard, 1849), NIFCCD018, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

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Warsaw cafés – disputes between Classics and Romantics	Local