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Nicolas Chopin (in Polish: Mikołaj Chopin; 15 April 1771 – 3 May 1844) was a teacher of the French language in Partitioned Poland, and father of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.
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.
Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola in central Poland near Sochaczew, in the region of Masovia, which was part of the Duchy of Warsaw. He was born to Mikolaj (Nicolas) Chopin, a Frenchman of distant Polish ancestry who adopted Poland as his homeland when he moved there in 1787, and married Tekla Justyna Krzyzanowska, a Pole.
1771–1844. Nicolas (Mikołaj) Chopin was born on April 15th, 1771 in France, in the town of Marainville, located on the Madon river, around 30 km from Nancy, the capital of Lorraine. Lorraine was formerly an independent duchy, governed by Poland's former king Stanisław Leszczyński to his death in 1766, and which then passed to France.
Mar 1, 2020 · On this day one of the greatest piano composers in world history – Frédéric Chopin – was born in the Polish village of Wola Żelazowa. Interestingly, his father was not a Pole but a Frenchman, Nicolas Chopin, who moved to Poland at the age of 16 and worked as a tutor of aristocratic children.
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Oct 18, 2018 · The story of Chopin actually begins in France, where Fryderyk’s father, Nicolas Chopin, grew up, the son of a winemaker. However, the young Nicolas left the Alsace region of France for...
