Chopin gave his first concert on 24 February 1818 in Warsaw playing a concerto by Adalbert Gyrowetz. His last was in London's Guildhall on 16 November 1848 when he played a couple of his Etudes at a ...

Composer and pianist, Frédéric Chopin died in Paris in 1849 at the age of thirty-nine from a lung condition. The son of a French father and a Polish mother, he began playing the piano at the age ...