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Rondo Op. 1. | What is the title of his first commercially successful work? |
Dominik Dziewanowski | Who was Frédéric a guest of during his visit of Szafarnia in 1824 and 1825? |
Szafarnia | In which village did Frédéric first experience rural Polish folk music? |
his family | To whom did Frédéric write letters to during his stay in Szafarnia? |
Warsaw newspapers | What did Frédéric write parodies of in his letters? |
Dominik Dziewanowski | During his vacation in 1824 and 1825 who did Chopin spend his vacation with? |
Polish rural folk music | What type of music did Chopin discover for the first time while staying in Szafarnia? |
Dominik Dziewanowski | What was the name of the person who hosted Chopin as a guest when he discovered Polish rural folk music? |
The Szafarnia Courier | What was the title chopin gave of some spoof letters he wrote? |
Szafarnia | Where did Chopin spend his vacation in 1824 and 1825? |
1827 | During what year did Frédéric's youngest sister, Emilia, pass away? |
Krakowskie Przedmieście | What street did Frédéric's family move to after the death of his youngest sister? |
1830 | What year did Frédéric leave Warsaw after moving with his family to the south annex of Krasiński Palace? |
a museum | What did the Chopin's family business become in the 20th century? |
Ambroży Mieroszewski | Which artist created the first known portrait of Frédéric? |
1827 | What year did Chopin's sister Emilia die? |
1830 | What year did Chopin leave Warsaw? |
boarding house for male students | What was the Chopin family's business? |
Ambroży Mieroszewski | What artist painted the Chopin family? |
sister Emilia | Who in Chopin's family died shortly before they moved in 1827? |
1830 | What year did Chopin leave Warsaw? |
Chopin Family Parlour | What was the Chopin boarding house called in English? |
Ambroży Mieroszewski | What artist made portraits of the Chopin family in 1829? |
male | Was the Chopin family boarding house for male or female students? |
Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana | Of the individuals that became intimate with Frédéric during their stay at the family apartments, which two became part of Frédéric's social environment in Paris? |
Konstancja Gładkowska | Which singer was cited specifically as someone Frédéric was attracted to? |
Tytus Woyciechowski, Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki, Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana | What four boys from his family's boarding house became friends with Chopin? |
Konstancja Gładkowska | Which singer did Chopin become fascinated with? |
Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor) | Which of Chopin's works was unknowingly dedicated to Gladkowska? |
July 1829 | When did Chopin receive his last Conservatory report? |
Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana | Which two of Chopin's friends became part of his Paris milieu? |
Konstancja Gładkowska | What was the name of the singing student Chopin was attracted to? |
Tytus Woyciechowski | To whom did Chopin reveal in letters which parts of his work were about the singing student he was infatuated with? |
Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor) | What musical piece had a Larghetto dedicated to the female singing student Chopin was infatuated with? |
Four | How many boarders of his family's boarding house became intimate friends with Chopin? |
Feliks Jarocki | Who did Frédéric visit Berlin with in September 1828? |
Gaspare Spontini | Which opera director did Frédéric see works of during his stay in Berlin? |
Prince Antoni Radziwiłł | Who was Frédéric a guest of during his stay in Berlin in 1829? |
Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for cello and piano, Op. 3 | What piece did Frédéric create specifically for the prince and the prince's daughter, Wanda? |
September 1828 | When did Chopin visit Berlin? |
Feliks Jarocki | With whom did Chopin go to Berlin? |
Gaspare Spontini | While in Berlin he saw the operatic work of who? |
Prince Antoni Radziwiłł | In 1829 on a trip back to Berlin Chopin was a guest of who? |
Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for cello and piano, Op. 3 | What piece did Chopin create for Prince Antoni? |
1828 | What year did Chopin visit Berlin while still a student? |
Feliks Jarocki | Who did Chopin go to Berlin with? |
zoologist | What did the person who Chopin went with to Berlin do for his work? |
Gaspare Spontini | Who directed the operas they enjoyed in Berlin? |
1829 | What year did Chopin return to Berlin? |
Souvenir de Paganini | What did Frédéric compose after hearing Niccolò Paganini perform on the violin? |
August | During what month did Frédéric make his first appearance in Vienna? |
two | How many piano concerts did Frédéric perform in Vienna during this time? |
17 March 1830 | On what date did Frédéric give his first performance of Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21? |
Souvenir de Paganini | What did Chopin compose after hearing Niccolo Paganini? |
Vienna | Where did Chopin debut after completing his studies? |
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 | What piece did Chopin debut after returning to Warsaw? |
September 1829 | When did Chopin return to Warsaw? |
accustomed to the piano-bashing of local artists | Why did some critics say that Chopin was too delicate? |
Niccolò Paganini | Who did Chopin hear play violin in 1829 that prompted him to write a composisition? |
Vienna | Where did Chopin make his debut after completing his education? |
two | How many public performances did Chopin do where he made his debut after completing his education? |
three | How many weeks after completing school was it before Chopin made his public debut? |
2 November 1830 | On what date did Frédéric begin his journey into Western Europe? |
Austria | Which country did Frédéric go to first after setting out for Western Europe? |
1830 | In what year did his companion Woyciechowski depart to Poland to enlist for the uprising in Warsaw? |
Zdzisław Jachimecki | What historian commented that the events involving Frédéric's friend in Poland contributed to his maturing? |
Zdzisław Jachimecki | Who said that Chopin set out "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever?" |
Woyciechowski | Who did Chopin leave for Austria with? |
Italy | Where did Chopin intend to go after Austria? |
the November 1830 Uprising | Woyciechowski left Chopin to enlist in what? |
western Europe | What geographicla region was opened for Chopin due to his composing and performances? |
Woyciechowski | When Chopin started to take his music to the world, what is the last name of the person who went with him to Austria? |
1830 | What year did the uprising begin in Warsaw? |
"I curse the moment of my departure." | What were the words Chopin wrote to a friend when he was alone and homesick? |
1831 | What year did Chopin learn that the uprising in Warsaw was crushed? |
the Polish Great Emigration | What event was Frédéric a part of when he arrived in Paris during the later part of September in 1831? |
French | What version of Frédéric's birth name did he begin using after arriving in France? |
1835 | In what year did Frédéric officially acquire French citizenship? |
friends and confidants | What were the two kinds of relationships stated as Frédéric having with his fellow Poland natives in exile? |
Polish | What nationality is stated as the one Frédéric felt most identified by? |
September 1831 | When did Chopin reach Paris? |
Polish Great Emigration | By not going back to Poland Chopin became part of what? |
1835 | In what year did Chopin become a French citizen? |
Adam Zamoyski | What is the name of Chopin's biographer? |
Poland | After 1831, what country did Chopin never return to? |
France | What country's passport did he have from 1835? |
French | What language was Chopin never completely at ease speaking? |
Adam Zamoyski | What biographer of Chopin wrote that Chopin never considered himself French? |
Polish Great Emigration | Due to the numbers of expatriates of Poland after the uprising, what did it become to be known as? |
Paris | In what city did Frédéric achieve celebrity status? |
Adam Mickiewicz | Who was the principal of the Polish Literary Society that Frédéric became acquainted with? |
songs | What did Frédéric create from verses of the poet Adam Mickiewicz? |
Adam Mickiewicz | What poet did Chopin use verses from for songs? |
Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Ferdinand Hiller, Heinrich Heine, Eugène Delacroix, and Alfred de Vigny | What people did Chopin meet while in Paris? |
Adam Mickiewicz | What was the name of the poet Chopin became acquainted with in Paris? |
principal of the Polish Literary Society | What position did the poet who Chopin knew in Paris hold? |
Julian Fontana | Which friend of Frédéric failed to achieve success in England? |
Albert Grzymała | Who was Frédéric's trusted adviser while in Paris? |
elder brother | What familial role was Albert Grzymała compared to in regards to Frédéric? |
Julian Fontana | Who is stated as a jack of all trades in service to Frédéric? |