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Frederic Chopin: Warsaw Conservatory
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In the 1840s, it was trendy for women and girls in Paris to be students of Frederic Chopin. This trend didn't last long ... because on October 17, 1849 Frederic Chopin passed away. He had been suffering from tuberculosis for many years. As he had requested, Chopin's heart was taken to Warsaw and placed in the Holy Cross Church where it remains entombed today.
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Chopin kept to himself in Paris and played only occasionally at social gatherings in the homes of the aristocracy. Because he did not enjoy copying his music, his friend Julian Fontana, who as a student had boarded with the Chopin family in Warsaw, was his copyist. When Fontana left for America at the end of 1841, Chopin's output slowed considerably.
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Warsaw now seemed too small for Chopin. On November 2, 1830, seen off by friends and admirers, with a ring from his beloved on his finger and carrying with him a silver cup containing soil of his native land, Chopin set out, writes Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever."[23]
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