4. 1. Chopin’s family life Chopin’s parents: Father, Mikołaj , born in France, settled in Poland at age of 16 and spent here the rest of his life. At first he was a tutor, after moving from Zelazowa Wola to Warsaw, he was a language and french literature lecturer in a few warsaw schools, finally leading an elite boarding school for sons of the most remarkable aristocratic Polish houses. Mother, Justyna from Krzyzanowski, she loved playing the piano. Chopin’s mother was born in Dlugie grange which belonged to Skarbek family placed 4 kilometeres from Izbica Kujawska.
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6. b) Chopin's childhood and youth Mother, Justyna of Krzyzanowski originally from Kujawy was a very musical person - she played the piano and sang; naturally she became the first music teacher for little Frycek, how was he called at home. In a few months after Fryderyk's birth, Chopin's family moved to Warsaw, where father took a job as a teacher in a Warsaw high school. Fryderyk Chopin's house in Zelazowa Wola
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14. In the 2005, students from our school, during excursion, laid flowers and lit flames on the composer's gra v e in cemetery Pere Lachaise .
23. Jakob Goetzenberger (1800-1866) pencil drawing 1838, 255 x 115 George Sand pencil drawing, 1844 Eugène Delacroix - Fryderyk Chopin
24. Statue of Fryderyk Chopin in Łazienki Królewskie Statue of Chopin in Duszniki
25. Sculpture of Fryderyk Chopin by Henryk Tarkowski Sculpture of Fryderyk Chopin by Antoni Madeyski A bust of Fryderyk Chopin by Xawery Dunikowski made around 1924, in bronze.