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Chopin got a passport vised for London, "passant par Paris &.
Londres," and had permission from the Russian Ambassador to go as
far as Munich. Then the cholera gave him some bother, as he had
to secure a clean bill of health, but he finally got away. The
romantic story of "I am only passing through Paris," which he is
reported to have said in after years, has been ruthlessly shorn
of its sentiment. At Munich he played his second concerto and
pleased greatly. But he did not remain in the Bavarian capital,
hastening to Stuttgart, where he heard of the capture of Warsaw
by the Russians, September 8, 1831. This news, it is said, was
the genesis of the great C minor etude in opus 10, sometimes
called the "Revolutionary." Chopin exclaimed in a letter dated
December 16, 1831, "All this caused me much pain--who could have
foreseen it!" and in another letter he wrote, "How glad my mamma
will be that I did not go back." Count Tarnowski in his
recollections prints some extracts from a diary said to have been
kept by Chopin. According to this his agitation must have been
terrible.


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