Essential Chronology

1810: (22 February) born in Zelazowa Wola (Warsaw) to Nicolas, a tutor in the household of the aristocratic Skarbek family and to Justyna Tekla Krzyzanowska, a lady in waiting in the same household.
1816: Studies piano and composition with Wojciek Zywny, a violinist and pianist from Bohemia.
1817: Composes his first polonaise in G major, a piece which was written down for him by his teacher.
1818: H

is first concert held in public. A large number of recitals in the salons of the Warsaw aristocracy.
1822: He is placed in the hands of the Silesian teacher Jozef Elsner, an important musician of the epoch.
1826: (Autumn) Chopin enrolls at the Higher School of Music.
1830: Achieves an extraordinary success with his "Concerto in C major for pianoforte and orchestra" which was performed at the National Theatre on 17 and 28 March. (2 November) Chopin leaves Warsaw (a city he would never see again), receiving as he left the farewells of his closest friends and of Jozef Elsner. He stays for a while in Breslavia, Dresden and Prague before reaching Vienna on 24 November. He finishes his "introduction et polonaise brillante in C major for pianoforte and violoncello, op. 3)".
1831: After staying in Linz, Salzburg and Munich he moves to Stuttgart. He passes through a period of very deep depression whose details are narrated in his famous "Stuttgart Diary". (The last days of September) Chopin is in Paris where Dr.Malfatti (one of Beethoven's doctors) suggests his name to Ferdinando Paer, Concert Director to the King, the musical figure who subsequently paved the way for Chopin's successes in the Paris salons. (December) Schuman declares that Chopin is a "musical genius" in a piece written for the Allgemaine Musik Zeitung.
1832: Chopin meets Countess Delfina Potacha, another figure who helped to introduce him into Paris high society, and indeed it was to this aristocratic lady that Chopin was to dedicate his "concerto in F major". He gives very highly paid private music lessons. Together with Auguste Franchomme he composes "grand duo concertant in E major on themes from Robert le Diable" for violoncello and pianoforte.
1836: (5 November 13 November) Liszt introduces him to the writer Georg Sand. He meets Mendelssohn, Rossini, Berlioz and other leading figures of Parisian cultural life.
1838: (June) The love affair between Chopin and Georg Sand begins. Ten years of great creativity also begin.
1848: (16 February) Chopin holds his last Paris recital in the Sala Pleyel. (20 April) Jane Stirling, one of Chopin's pupils, invites him to Great Britain where over a period of seven months he gives ten recitals: in London (23 June and 7 July), in Manchester (28 August), in Glasgow (27 September), in Edinburgh (4 October) and in London again in November. His health gets worse and he returns to Paris.
1849: (17 October) Chopin dies at the age of thirty nine, in his home at 12 Place Vendome, of heart disease. He had been suffering from tuberculosis.

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