[Sidenote: PROPOSALS FOR A SECOND CONCERT.] Everyone says that I have especially pleased the _noblesse_ here. The Schwarzenbergʼs, Wrbnaʼs, and others were quite enthusiastic about the delicacy and elegance of my execution; in proof of this take Count Dietrichsteinʼs coming on the stage to me. Countess Lichnowski and her daughter, with whom I drank tea to-day, are quite delighted that I am going to give a second concert on Tuesday. They invited me to visit them if I passed through Vienna, on my way to Paris, then they wished to give me a letter to a certain Countess, sister to Count Lichnowski. A great deal too much kindness. Czerny, Schuppanzigh, and Gyrowtez have also paid me many compliments. To-day a stranger looked at me in the ante-room, and, asking Celinski if I was Chopin, rushed up to me. He spoke of the pleasure he should have in becoming acquainted with such an artist, and said, “You really delighted and enchanted me the day before yesterday.” It was the same gentleman who had sat beside Maciejowski and seemed so delighted with my improvisation on “Chmiel.” Under no circumstances will I give a third concert; I only give a second because I am forced to, and I thought that people might say in Warsaw, “He only gave _one_ concert in Vienna, probably he was not much liked.” To-day I was at the house of one of the newspaper critics, who is very well disposed towards me, and is sure to write a favourable critique. I cannot tell you how kind and pleasant Würfel is. I shall play gratuitously the second time also, for the sake of obliging Gallenberg, whose finances are not very flourishing. (But this is a secret.) I shall play the Rondo, and then improvise. For the rest, I am in good health, and eat and drink well. Vienna pleases me much, and I am not without the society of my countrymen; there is one in the ballet, who took charge of me at my _débût_, and brought me _eau sucrée_. Please relate all I write to Elsner, and beg him to pardon me for not writing to him, but my time is really so filled up that I have not a moment to spare. I wish to thank M. Skarbek, who was one of the foremost in persuading me to give a concert; and this is, indeed, the artistʼs first step in life. Your ever affectionate FREDERIC. * * * * * _Vienna, August 19th, 1829._ If on the first occasion the public were favourable, my reception, yesterday, was still more hearty. I was greeted, when I came on to the stage with three long rounds of applause. The financial manager—whose name I cannot remember—thanked me for the receipts, and said that the house could not have been so full on account of the ballet, for that had been given several times.