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At a distance not quite a fifty miles from Warsaw, in the midst of the Mazovian fields and meadows, whose charm has been described by so many Polish poets, lays the small hamlet of Zelazowa Wola. In a quiet and modest manor house on February 22, 1810 the biggest pride of the Polish nation and the treasure to the whole world- Fryderyk Chopin was born. Zelazowa Wola formed part of the estate of a Count Skarbek. Nicolas Chopin, the composer’s father, was a tutor to the Count's young son, Fryderyk, after whom he later named his own son; Chopin’s mother, Justyna Krzyzanowska, ran the household of the Skarbek family.
Nicolas Chopin came to Poland from France at the age of sixteen. Through many years of residence in Poland as well as marriage to a Polish woman, he could speak very good Polish. He participated in the Kosciuszko Uprising as a Polish soldier, and he did indeed become a Pole.
Fryderyk Chopin's first piano teacher was his sister Ludwika. However, after one year the young student was far more advanced than his teacher, and their parents had to find a new teacher for Fryderyk. They turned to Wojciech Zywny, music teacher from Warsaw, who is to this day mentioned in virtually every music encyclopedia around the world thanks to this particular student of his, as the man who should be responsible for Fryderyk's early musical education.
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