Chopin, Frédéric
(1810–1849)> COMPOSER
Chopin, Frédéric (1 March 1810, Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw; 17 October 1849, Paris), composer, showed signs of being a prodigy at age seven, and he gave his first public concert when he was nine. Subsequently he entered the Conservatory in Warsaw to study harmony and composition, but his piano professors could teach him nothing that he did not already know. It was not long before Chopin’s reputation as a musician radiated from Warsaw to the other capitals of Europe, and, in 1829, he was…