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--F. Chopin, penniless'!"
These letters have a Micawber ring, but they indicate Chopin's
love of jest. Sikorski tells a story of the lad's improvising in
church so that the priest, choir and congregation were forgotten
by him.
The travellers arrived at Warsaw October 6 after staying a few
days in Posen where the Prince Radziwill lived; here Chopin
played in private. This prince-composer, despite what Liszt
wrote, did not contribute a penny to the youth's musical
education, though he always treated him in a sympathetic manner.
Hummel and Paganini visited Warsaw in 1829. The former he met and
admired, the latter he worshipped. This year may have seen the
composition, if not the publication of the "Souvenir de
Paganini," said to be in the key of A major and first published
in the supplement of the "Warsaw Echo Muzyczne." Niecks writes
that he never saw a copy of this rare composition. Paderewski
tells me he has the piece and that it is weak, having historic
interest only. I cannot find much about the Polish poet, Julius
Slowacki, who died the same year, 1849, as Edgar Allan Poe.


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