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Updated: January 11, 2026

How much stiffness and jerkiness exasperated him may be judged from what Madame Zaleska related to M. Kleczynski. But polite as Chopin generally was, irritation often got the better of him, more especially in later years when bad health troubled him.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2