At any rate, these two poets, who made their mark in Polish literature, brought the musician in closest contact with the strivings of the literary romanticism of those days.

In later years Chopin set several of Witwicki's songs to music.

Both Magnuszewski and Witwicki lived afterwards, like Chopin, in Paris, where they continued to associate with him.

Of the musical acquaintances we have to notice first and foremost Julius Fontana, who himself said that he was a daily visitor at Chopin's house.

The latter writes in the above-mentioned letter (December 27, 1828) to Titus Woyciechowski:-- The Rondo for two pianos, this orphan child, has found a step- father in Fontana (you may perhaps have seen him at our house, he attends the university); he studied it for more than a month, but then he did learn it, and not long ago we tried how it would sound at Buchholtz's.
Alexander Rembielinski, described as a brilliant pianist and a composer in the style of Fesca, who returned from Paris to Warsaw and died young, is said to have been a friend of Chopin's.