# Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1

Author: Niecks, Frederick, 1845-1924

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4681

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Frederick+Chopin%2C+as+a+Man+and+Musician+Niecks&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

GOETHE playfully describes himself as indebted to his father for his frame and steady guidance of life, to his mother for his happy disposition and love of story-telling, to his grandfather for his devotion to the fair sex, to his grandmother for his love of finery. Schopenhauer reduces the law of heredity to the simple formula that man has his moral nature, his character, his inclinations, and his heart from his father, and the quality and tendency of his intellect from his mother. Buckle, on the other hand, questions hereditary transmission of mental qualities altogether. Though little disposed to doubt with the English historian, yet we may hesitate to assent to the proposition of the...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederick-chopin-as-a-man-and-musician-volume-1-4681/chapters/13/index.md)