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⁾

Frederic made several appearances in the salons of the Warsaw elite even as a toddler. Chopin became renowned in Warsaw thanks to ywny, who typed down his variations and dances according to Frederic's directions and displayed them in numerous Warsaw residences. ⁷⁾

When Frederic's father's lyceum was relocated from the Saski Palace to the Kazimierzowski Palace, the Chopins relocated to the palace's outbuilding, the so-called post-building. rector's Juliusz Krzysztof Kolberg and his sons, Samuel Bogumi Linde and Kazimierz Brodziski, were their immediate neighbors at the time. ⁸⁾

Frederic Chopin's first printed piece was published in 1817. It was in the key of G minor, and it was a polonaise. It was printed in the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Warsaw's New Town's parish typographical enterprise. ⁹⁾

In 1818, Chopin gave his first public concert in the Radziwil Palace (today the Presidential Palace).¹⁰⁾

Chopin, at eight years old, performed in Warsaw for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, whom he presented with two of his Polish dances. Chopin also performed for Tsar Alexander I, who was in Warsaw for a Parliament session. Frederic was playing the eolomelodikon, a newly created instrument at the time. ¹¹⁾

Chopin's musical abilities were not the only thing he revealed. According to several biographers, he was a worldwide talent. He created caricatures of his professors, which received praise from everyone who saw them. He also performed impromptu stories for his loved ones, wrote poetry and comedy for pleasure, and demonstrated his painting and acting abilities. Chopin had an intimidatingly true knack for copying whomever he desired, according to Honore de Balzac. ¹²⁾

Chopin began his studies in harmony and counterpoint with Joseph Elsner at the Warsaw School of Music. Joseph Elsner was a composer, educator, music culture activist, music theorist, and teacher from Poland of German ancestry.¹³⁾

Chopin was attracted by folk music throughout his college years, and it is evident in his work from this time period. ¹⁴⁾

Chopin traveled to Berlin for the first time in 1826, which was his first travel abroad. ¹⁵⁾