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age of 39. He was buried in Paris. Chopin's last reąuest was that the Polish soil in the silver goblet be sprinkled over his grave.

Based on what you have read please write the event and the place connected with Chopin’s life.

1810    1829    1848

1816    1830    1849

2. Listen to the piece of musie and decide which event from Chopin’s life the musie is connected with. Why did Chopin compose such a work? What images come to your mind when you listen to it?

Etiuda c-moll op. 10 nr 12 („Rewolucyjna")

What do you know about that period in Polish history?

3. Match the descriptions of places with appropriate pictures.

Text 1

Its subseąuent owners, the Radziwiłł family, added the extension wings in 1738-1740. In 1817 the pałace was purchased by the govemment of the Polish Kingdom to become the seat of the Tsarist Viceroys. On February 24, 1818 the 8-year-old Frederic Chopin gave his first public concert here at a Charity Society dinner. The young virtuoso performed the Concert in E minor by Wojciech Jirovec (Gyrowetz). After World War I the building was refurbished to