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Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician

CHAPTER VI
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Only Matuszynski was wanting to make the group complete.
Several names in the above extract remind me that I ought to say a few words about the young men with whom Chopin at that time associated.

Many of them were no doubt companions in the noblest sense of the word.
Of this class may have been Celinski, Hube, Eustachius Marylski, and Francis Maciejowski (a nephew of the previously-mentioned Professor Waclaw Maciejowski), who are more or less frequently mentioned in Chopin's correspondence, but concerning whom I have no information to give.

I am as badly informed about Dziewanowski, whom a letter quoted by Karasowski shows to have been a friend of Chopin's.

Of two other friends, Stanislas Kozmian and William Kolberg, we know at least that the one was a few years ago still living at Posen and occupied the post of President of the Society of the Friends of Science, and that the other, to whom the earliest letters of Chopin that have come down to us are addressed, became, not to mention lesser offices and titles, a Councillor of State, and died on June 4,1877.

Whatever the influence of the friends I have thus far named may have been on the man Chopin, one cannot but feel inclined to think that Stephen Witwicki and Dominic Magnuszewski, especially the former, must have had a greater influence on the artist.


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