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The sleepy village west of Warsaw, Zelazowa Wola, where Frédéric Chopin was born in 1810, is a natural destination for music lovers. When I arrived late last September 1. _____ the solid country manor where Chopin was born, I was eager to listen to one of the charmed piano recitals that take place there each Sunday from May through September.

2. _____ Chopin was recognized as a prodigy (he wrote his first two polonaises at the age of 7, a year after he began studying the piano), listening to compositions played in his house is particularly fitting.

3. _____ is a short walk from the main entrance through the formal garden to the house. The rooms are spacious, with large windows, high ceilings and sizable white porcelain heating stoves. The furnishings are mainly period pieces, all meant to provide the mood of the era rather than an actual representation of the house in Chopin’s time. In the alcove where Chopin is believed 4. ____ born, an enormous arrangement of fresh flowers is always displayed.

The history of the house is nearly as complicated as that of Poland, 5. ____ was erased from the map of Europe in 1795. Chopin himself never forgave the Russians for 6. ____ the November Uprising in 1831, and refused to perform in Russia.

Ironically, it was a Russian, the composer Mili Balakirev, who saved Chopin’s birthplace. Balakirev, a devoted Chopin enthusiast, visited Zelazowa Wola in the late 19th century and petitioned the Russian government for help in restoring the house.

adapted and abridged from: The New York Times, 2003