[50] Chopin says what he may have heard reported, for it is well known that the world rarely credits the nobly born with artistic talent. Prince Louis Ferdinand was, indeed, Dussekʼs pupil, but he was not, therefore, helped in his compositions by his teacher. Prince Ferdinand—called Louis Ferdinand in history, and on the title pages of his compositions—was of an inventive nature, and what works he has left are really the produce of his own brain. Full of patriotism and courage, he took part in the war and fell at Saalfield, October 13th, 1806. [51] One thinks involuntarily of the Orchestra at the Bayreuth Festival, in 1876. Yes, yes, “Original fahrʼ him in deiner Pracht.”—_Goethe._ [52] This polonaise appears as op. 71 in the collection of posthumous works. [53] Grand Fantasia on Polish airs, op. 13. [54] Charles Kurpinski, bandmaster, and composer of several national operas, was born in 1785, and died in 1857, in Warsaw. [55] A coffee-house frequented by most of the _literati_; called in German “Aschenbrodel.” [56] The following programme was performed in the Warsaw Theatre, March 17th, 1830. _First Part._ 1.—Overture to the Opera “Leszek Bialy,” by Elsner. 2.—Allegro from the F minor Concerto, composed and played by Herr F. Chopin. 3.—Divertissement for Horn, composed and played by Herr Görner. 4.—Adagio and Rondo, from F minor Concerto, composed and played by Herr Chopin. _Second Part._ 1.—Overture to the Opera, “Cecilia Piaseczynska,” by Kurpinski. 2.—Variations by Paër, sung by Madame Meier. 3.—Pot-pourri on national songs, by Chopin. [57] A fellow student of Chopinʼs, born 1800, died in Warsaw 1865. [58] About 850 Thalers. [59] Felix Ignaz Dobrzynski, pianist and composer, born 1807, died in Warsaw, 1865. [60] Fräulein Gladkowska was the realization of Chopinʼs ideal. His thoughts of her are interwoven into all the compositions which he wrote at that time. Dreaming of her, he wrote the Adagio of the E minor Concerto; his desire of leaving Warsaw vanished; she entirely filled the soul of the passionate youth of twenty. Constantia Gladkowska, a pupil of Soliva, was married in 1832, and left the stage, to the great regret of all connoisseurs. [61] Fräulein Wotkow, a fellow pupil with Gladkowska, also left the stage on her marriage, in 1836. [62] Signore Soliva, an Italian by birth, went to the Warsaw Conservatoire in 1821 as singing master. When the institution was closed by the Russian Government, he migrated first to St. Petersburg, then to Paris, where he died, in 1851. Soliva composed the operas, “La Testa di bronzo,” “Elena e Mauvina,” and several smaller works. [63] His poems have been translated into nearly every living language, perhaps with most success into German. They have a peculiar colouring, are full of poetic inspiration, and rich in thought. [64] See Schillingʼs Universal Lexicon of Music.