He was also a talented mimic who enjoyed the pleasures of an active social life.Ĭhopin held a nine-year relationship with writer Baroness Aurore Dudevant. While in Paris, he became a piano teacher and recitalist to the elite while composing best-selling sheet music. By the time he reached his 22nd birthday, he was considered one of the most celebrated figures in France. Three weeks later, he boarded a train headed for Vienna, then ultimately to Paris. On 11 October 1830, he gave his last public performance in Warsaw. He composed his first two polonaises at age seven.
During his teenage years, he achieved local celebrity status, gaining praise for the short, simple, bittersweet pieces he composed on the piano. He was an effeminate, attractive, passive, intriguing, mysterious, private and misunderstood man. Son of a French-born high school teacher, Chopin was born in a small village in Poland. His was the first Polish musician to be enjoyed worldwide. Polish classical composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, he was recognized as a musical prodigy at age eight and hailed as the next Mozart.
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