Frederic was most likely born in elazowa Wola on March 1, 1810. According to some reports, he was born on February 22, 1810. ¹⁾

Ludwika, Izabela, and Emilia Chopin were Chopin's three sisters, all of whom died young. ²⁾

The Chopin family relocated to Warsaw in the fall of 1810. They first lived in a tenement home on Krakowskie Przedmiecie Street, which no longer exists, before relocating to Saski Palace, their official abode. Nicolas Chopin was a French teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum. ³⁾

Chopin began studying the piano when he was in his fourth and fifth years. His mother instructed him. ⁴⁾

He began taking piano lessons at the age of six from Wojciech ywny, a Polish musician of Czech descent. Żywny was a Chopin teacher for six years. He introduced Frederic to works of baroque and classical music and discussed the structure of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Hummel's piano compositions. Chopin acquired a fondness for older composers as a result of his studies. Frederic dedicated the Polonaise in A flat major, penned in 1821, to him when he was eleven years old. Wojciech Żywny is buried in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery. ⁵⁾

Wilhelm Waclaw Wurfel, who was also from Czechoslovakia, was Chopin's second instructor. Frederic had already written numerous short compositions when he was seven years old. These were polonaises, which are a type of musical dance based on the polonaise dance. Chopin grew up in the midst of this music's ambience. ⁶⁾