Better musicians than Fontana, although less generally known in the western part of Europe, are Joseph Nowakowski and Thomas Nidecki.

Chopin, by some years their junior, had intercourse with them during his residence in Poland as well as afterwards abroad.

It does not appear that Chopin had what can rightly be called intimate friends among the young Polish musicians.

If we may believe the writer of an article in Sowinski's Dictionary, there was one exception.

He tells us that the talented Ignaz Felix Dobrzynski was a fellow-pupil of Chopin's, taking like him private lessons from Elsner.