(Chopin seems to have been anti-Semitic, but not inordinately so, mainly criticizing insistent moneylenders or Jewish music publishers slow in paying him for his work.
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“Warsaw gave him his material for Polonaises, but the countryside gave rise to his Mazurkas.” 3 Chopin himself wrote, “I should like only to write and leave for posterity the ABC of that which is truly Polish and to teach people how to discard things which are called Polish but which are not really Polish.” 4Įncouraged by his father to expand his horizons by touring Europe, Chopin, after enduring some hardship, would win fame in Paris, where he secured the patronage of the Rothschilds in finding wealthy piano students 5. “But he was studying by himself, composing, and took advantage of his summer vacations when he listened to and was fascinated by folk music,” Mizwa continues. He studied at the recently established Warsaw Lyceum, where his father lectured in French, and then at the Warsaw Conservatory. There is an irony, then, in the fact that this child piano prodigy who would become one of his nation’s cultural heroes was incompletely Polish in his family background, having been born to a French expatriate father and a Polish mother. Mizwa 1, with Honoré de Balzac even commenting that the composer was “more Polish than Poland” 2. Frédéric Chopin “is often spoken of as ‘the most Polish of Polish composers’,” observes Stephen P.
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