See how beautifully he wrote his music.
CHOPIN'S AUTOGRAPH [Listen]
There was neither telephone nor telegraph in those days. Yet it did not take long for another composer, Robert Schumann, who lived far away, in Germany, to learn that a genius by the name of Chopin lived in Paris.
The post carried to Schumann a copy of Chopin's first printed music. This was a theme taken from Mozart's Opera Don Juan, which Chopin arranged with variations for the piano.
When Schumann played it to his friends everyone exclaimed: "How beautiful it is!"
Then someone said:
"Chopin—I never heard the name. Who can he be?"
R. SCHUMANN