That's probably not true, but Chopin did continue to be passionatly patriotic about Poland, even though he never went back there.Ĭhopin was never healthy, and he was only thirty-nine when he died of tuberculosis. There's a story that when Chopin left his native country, his friends gave him some Polish soil, which he carried around with him for the rest of his life. When Chopin got to Paris, he decided to stay.
When Chopin was 20, he left Poland to seek fame and fortune in other European cities. He gave his first concert at the age of eight. His mother introduced him to the piano by the time he was six, Chopin played extremely well and was starting to compose. Chopin was born in a town just outside of Warsaw, Poland.
Frédéric Chopin was one of the greatest pianists of his day.
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