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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN'S BORN
Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village of Warsaw, Poland.
He grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; -
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN'S TUTOR
Chopin's first professional piano tutor, was the Czech Wojciech Żywny.Though the youngster's skills soon surpassed his teacher's, -
HE MOVED TO WARSAV
In 1820, then ten-year-old Chopin moved with his parents to Warsaw. There he gained a reputation as a "second Mozart" for his piano playing. -
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN EDUCATION
Chopin, tutored at home until he was thirteen, enrolled in the Warsaw Lyceum in 1823, but continued studying piano under Żywny's direction -
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN TRAVEL TO VIENNA
He travel to Vienna to met with the pianist Johann Nepomuk Hummel in 1829 and he played a couple of concerts. -
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN'S FIRST COMPOSITIONS
He composed many of his mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20, -
CHOPIN BECOME TO BE FAMOUS
Chopin quickly expands his social connections, and from late 1832 on he rarely appears in public concerts. -
HE VISITED MALLORCA
He met with the writer Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, better known as George Sand. They visited Mallorca together in winter -
HE TRAVEL TO ENGLAND
He visited England and Scotland to play in concerts, but he was very ill and had to return home. -
HE DIE.
He died of tuberculosis in Paris, at about 2 o'clock in the morning on 17 October 1849.
