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Updated: May 22, 2025

Julius Fontana, one of the first friends of the boy he committed suicide in Paris, December 31, 1869, says that at the age of twelve Chopin knew so much that he was left to himself with the usual good and ill results. He first played on February 24, 1818, a concerto by Gyrowetz and was so pleased with his new collar that he naively told his mother, "Everybody was looking at my collar."

James Huneker - Chopin : the Man and His Music