Ludwika Jędrzejewicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish musician
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Ludwika Jędrzejewicz
- Ludwika Jedrzejewicz (Polish: [lud'vika j?nd??'j?vit?]; née Chopin; 6 April 1807 – 29 October 1855) was the elder sister of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Ludwika was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1807, the daughter of Nicolas Chopin and his wife Justyna. From a young age, she showed talent for music and literature.
- Like her brother Frédéric (b.
- 1810), she studied music with Wojciech Zywny.
- In 1825 Frédéric wrote to his friend and schoolmate Jan Bialoblocki "Ludwika has composed a perfect mazurek, of a kind that Warsaw has not yet danced to."When her brother emigrated to Paris in 1830, they wrote one another extensively, and she visited him on one occasion.
- Later, when Frédéric's health had begun to deteriorate rapidly, he requested that Ludwika come and stay with him.
- She arrived in Paris on 8 August 1849 with her daughter and husband, lawyer Józef Jedrzejewicz, but her husband soon left.
- Ludwika was with Frédéric when he died on 17 October 1849.After Ludwika's second trip to Paris, her marriage with Jedrzejewicz began to deteriorate.
- Her husband accused her of putting her family before everything else, and for many years Jedrzejewicz treated Ludwika badly.
- This continued until Jedrzejewicz's death in 1853.Ludwika died in her home in Warsaw during an 1855 epidemic of the plague.
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