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