Fryderyk Chopin

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In his extended essay on ‘Chopin’s thoughts’, Ryszard Przybylski writes: ‘friendship enabled Chopin to understand the function of opposition in man’s life, and love proved no more than a prelude to spiritual catastrophe.’ And elsewhere: ‘Romantic friendship was based on the conviction that the existence of “you” was a priori self-evident. It would never have occurred to young people living in that era that this existence should first be proven. It is our sad century that likes to dabble in such subtleties. Thanks to that conviction, the Romantics succeeded in overcoming the loneliness of the Cartesian cogito’.

Warsaw played a major role in Chopin’s life, not just as his home town, and so the place where he went to school, had his first childhood and adolescent triumphs on the stage and performed his first compositions, but as a place full of people who were close, kind and friendly to him. Chopin made his first lifelong friends in Warsaw. When he left the capital, he left behind all the sights, sounds and smells that were familiar to him, and all the people he had had around him during his earliest years and who had been so important in shaping his personality as both an artist and an individual.

There are many places in central Warsaw where the homes of Chopin’s friends and relatives once stood – and in some cases still stand. As you walk down Krakowskie Przedmieście, Nowy Świat, Marszałkowska and Chłodna streets, you pass the places where Count Fryderyk Skarbek, the composer’s godfather, Wojciech Żywny, his teacher, Maurycy Mochnacki, Stefan Witwicki, Jan Matuszyński, Kostuś Pruszak, his parents and sisters, the Kolbergs and Konstancja Gładkowska, his first great love, all lived.

Alfons Brandt family apartment. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Alfons Brandt family apartment. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Camaldolese monastery. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Camaldolese monastery. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Camaldolese monastery. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Chłodna 2/18. Place where was situated Jan Matuszyński residence. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Chłodna 2/18. Place where was situated Jan Matuszyński residence. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Chłodna 2/18. Place where was situated Jan Matuszyński residence. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Chłodna 2/18. Place where was situated Jan Matuszyński residence. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Corner of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska Street. Place where lived Fryderyk Skarbek. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Corner of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska Street. Place where lived Fryderyk Skarbek. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Dzielna 10. Place where was situated residence of Józef Reinschmidt’s parents. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Dzielna 10. Place where was situated residence of Józef Reinschmidt’s parents. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Embankment of the Oboźna Street with fountain. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Fountain at the embankment built on the site of the former source. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Garden at the back of Kazimierzowski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Garden at the back of Kazimierzowski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Garden at the back of Kazimierzowski Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Intorior of Camaldolese monastery. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 19. Place where lived Wojciech Żywny. Phot. Waldemra Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 19. Place where lived Wojciech Żywny. Phot. Waldemra Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 19. Place where lived Wojciech Żywny. Phot. Waldemra Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 81. Place where lived Marceli Celiński. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 81. Place where lived Marceli Celiński. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Memorial plaque. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Mikołaj Kopernik Monument. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Park on the embankment on Oboźna Street. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where lived Maurycy Mochnacki. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where lived Maurycy Mochnacki. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where probably stood Hotel Wileński. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where probably stood Hotel Wileński. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where probably stood Hotel Wileński. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was located The residence of Stefan Witwicki. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was located The residence of Stefan Witwicki. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated Pruszak Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated Pruszak Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated The Dziewanowski home. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated The Dziewanowski home. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Place where was situated The Dziewanowski home. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Staszic Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Staszic Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Staszic Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Staszic Palace. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenemant house where lived Dominik Magnuszewski. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenemant house where lived Dominik Magnuszewski. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenemant house where lived Dominik Magnuszewski. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenement at the Wierzbowa Street. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenement at the Wierzbowa Street. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenement at the Wierzbowa Street. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenement on the corner of the Krakowskie Przedmieście and Oboźna Street where lived Kolberg family. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenement on the corner of the Krakowskie Przedmieście and Oboźna Street where lived Kolberg family. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Tenement on the corner of the Krakowskie Przedmieście and Oboźna Street where lived Kolberg family. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Zakroczymska Street. Place where was situated Gładkowski apartment. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Zakroczymska Street. Place where was situated Gładkowski apartment. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.
Zakroczymska Street. Place where was situated Gładkowski apartment. Phot. Waldemar Kielichowski.

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Fryderyk Chopin – Sonata in C minor, Op. 4, Allegro maestoso (1827–1828) – Ewa Pobłocka (piano Pleyel, 1848), NIFCCD015, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Fryderyk Chopin – Sonata in C minor, Op. 4, Finale. Presto (1827–1828) – Ewa Pobłocka (piano Pleyel, 1848), NIFCCD015, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Fryderyk Chopin – Sonata in C minor, Op. 4, Larghetto (1827–1828) – Ewa Pobłocka (piano Pleyel, 1848), NIFCCD015, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Fryderyk Chopin – Sonata in C minor, Op. 4, Minuetto. Allegretto (1827–1828) – Ewa Pobłocka (piano Pleyel, 1848), NIFCCD015, (C)(P) The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

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Chelmland	Regional
Concerts and performances	Local
Departure	Local
Dobrzyń Land	Regional
Family	Local
Friends	Local
Greater Poland	Regional
Lesser Poland	Regional
Mazovia	Regional
Pomerania	Regional
Sheet music and instruments	Local
Silesia	Regional
Warsaw cafés – disputes between Classics and Romantics	Local