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Chopin was
delighted, for he was malicious in a dainty way. "What do you
think of this?" he writes. "_I_, a dangerous seducteur!" The
Paris letters to his parents were unluckily destroyed, as
Karasowski relates, by Russian soldiers in Warsaw, September 19,
1863, and with them were burned his portrait by Ary Scheffer and
his first piano. The loss of the letters is irremediable.
Karasowski who saw some of them says they were tinged with
melancholy. Despite his artistic success Chopin needed money and
began to consider again his projected trip to America. Luckily he
met Prince Valentine Radziwill on the street, so it is said, and
was persuaded to play at a Rothschild soiree. From that moment
his prospects brightened, for he secured paying pupils. Niecks,
the iconoclast, has run this story to earth and finds it built on
airy, romantic foundations. Liszt, Hiller, Franchomme and
Sowinski never heard of it although it was a stock anecdote of
Chopin.
Chopin must have broadened mentally as well as musically in this
congenial, artistic environment.


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