Chopin

"His appearance was so pleasant and harmonious that the gaze was happy to rest on him. His dark brown eyes were more cheerful than dreamy. His smile was lovable... He charmed everyone. He was aware of his artistic value, but did not overestimate himself. He sincerely acknowledged the greatness of others..." This is how one of his biographers, Karasowski, describes Chopin, the man. Chopin means to Poles what Petőfi means to us. Although he did not fight in the revolution and did not die on the battlefield, but went abroad, first to Vienna for a short time, and then to Paris, in his heart and in his music he never became French, he always remained Polish. If you ask a Pole who their best-known composer is, he will answer without thinking: Fryderyk Chopin.