September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
In the summer of 1826 a teenage Frédéric Chopin, who would become Poland’s greatest pianist and composer, traveled from Warsaw to the springs in Duszniki Zdrój in search of the supposedly healing “Silesian waters” in the town’s spa. Suffering from what is believed to have been an ailment affecting his upper respiratory system, he drank water from the spring and took walks into the mountains around the spa.1
During his stay, Chopin gave charity concerts for several local orphans whose father had died in an accident at the Mendelssohns’ iron foundry. ...
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