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He advised young pianists to listen
carefully and often to great singers. Mdlle. de Belleville the
pianist and Lipinski the violinist were admired, and he could
write a sound criticism when he chose. But the Gladowska is
worrying him. "Unbearable longing" is driving him to exile. He
attends her debut as Agnese in Paer's opera of that title and
writes a complete description of the important function to Titus,
who is at his country seat where Chopin visits him betimes.
Agitated, he thinks of going to Berlin or Vienna, but after much
philandering remains in Warsaw. On October 11, 1830, following
many preparations and much emotional shilly-shallying, Chopin
gave his third and last Warsaw concert. He played the E minor
concerto for the first time in public but not in sequence. The
first and last two movements were separated by an aria, such
being the custom of those days. Later he gave the Fantasia on
Polish airs. Best of all for him, Miss Gladowska sang a Rossini
air, "wore a white dress and roses in her hair, and was
charmingly beautiful.


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