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| Frederic Chopin
(1810 - 1849)
| Timeline |
| 1810 |
Born 22 February, at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, the son of a French father and Polish mother |
| 1817 |
Starts piano lessons; first attempts at composition |
| 1822 |
Takes advanced studies with Joseph Elsner, director of Warsaw Conservatory |
| 1825 |
Performs for Russian Tsar Alexander I |
| 1829 |
Leaves Conservatory and begins concert tour of Europe |
| 1831 |
Arrives in Paris; meets Liszt |
| 1838 |
Begins affair with French novelist Aurore Dudevant, better known by the male pseudonym George Sand |
| 1839 |
Spends winter in Majorca with Sand; health declines |
| 1847 |
Affair with Sand ends. Illness diagnosed as tuberculosis |
| 1849 |
Concert tour of British Isles, which leaves him mortally ill. Dies in Paris, 17 October |
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