Tytus Woyciechowski

Tytus Woyciechowski (1808–1879) was a landowner and a boyhood friend of Chopin. The two continued to correspond after the composer left the country. Woyciechowski attended the Warsaw Lyceum and stayed at the Chopins’ boarding house from 1818. After completing his studies in administration, he returned to the family estate in Poturzyn and assumed the management of it when his mother died in 1829.

Woyciechowski accompanied Chopin to Vienna in 1830. News of the November Uprising brought him back to Poland.

Chopin dedicated his Variations on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ for piano and orchestra, Op. 2  to Woyciechowski, who kept his mementoes of his friend for most of his life. He donated a bust of the composer to the Warsaw Music Society in 1873 and, through the intermediary of Izabella Barcińska, made his letters from Chopin available to Maurycy Karasowski for a book on the composer in 1876.