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" His musical precocity, not
as marked as Mozart's, but phenomenal withal, brought him into
intimacy with the Polish aristocracy and there his taste for
fashionable society developed. The Czartoryskis, Radziwills,
Skarbeks, Potockis, Lubeckis and the Grand Duke Constantine with
his Princess Lowicka made life pleasant for the talented boy.
Then came his lessons with Joseph Elsner in composition, lessons
of great value. Elsner saw the material he had to mould, and so
deftly did he teach that his pupil's individuality was never
checked, never warped. For Elsner Chopin entertained love and
reverence; to him he wrote from Paris asking his advice in the
matter of studying with Kalkbrenner, and this advice he took
seriously. "From Zwyny and Elsner even the greatest ass must
learn something," he is quoted as having said.
Then there are the usual anecdotes--one is tempted to call them
the stock stories of the boyhood of any great composer. In
infancy Chopin could not hear music without crying. Mozart was
morbidly sensitive to the tones of a trumpet.


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