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Chopin as a child
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Chopin: Compositions, pronunciation, biography and other facts
3. Chopin as a child
Chopin was composing and writing poetry at six, and gave his first public concerto performance at the age of eight. It's not really surprising - his mother was a piano teacher, and his father played the flute and violin.
