[16] A composer, pianist, and litterateur, who is still living in Poland.
[17] September 16th, 1828.
[18] Peter von Winter, born at Mannheim, in 1755, died at Munich, 1825, was a popular and rather over-rated composer. This opera made a great sensation.
[19] A long wide street in Warsaw.
[20] George Onslow, born in 1744, at Clermont-Ferrand, was descended from a noble English family. He was a pupil of Cramer and Dussek, and besides operas, of which “Der Hausirer” was the favourite, he wrote a great deal of chamber music, especially some excellent quartets.
[21] A reference to the Warsaw lady singers, who often left out or altered coloratures.
[22] In Polish “your” is “wasz,” pronounced “wasch” or “vache.”
[23] In the summer of 1827, Chopin stayed for several weeks at his godmotherʼs house, from whence he took a trip to Dantzig, to see the old trading city which used to belong to Poland. He wished also to make the acquaintance of the Superintendent Linde, brother of the Principal of the Warsaw Lyceum, at whose residence Frederic had already met the sisters of these gentlemen.
[24] J. N. Hummel, born in Pressburg, November 14th, 1782; died in Weimar, October 17th, 1837.
[25] Clementine Tanska, a famous Polish authoress for the young.