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Chopin Institute⛸️ Winter is in full swing here in Poland, and we’re sure Chopin would be having fun with it! Did you know that as a kid, he was a fan of… skating? While enjoying himself on the ice around the turn of 1826, the teenage Chopin had an accident, although the consequences were not overly drastic. Piotr Mysłakowski quotes Eugeniusz Skrodzki’s account as follows: “A few days later, Chopin was skating around the iced-over stream here, where the channel that runs down from the high ground in front of Holy Cross Church to ul. Oboźna was built for the fountain forty years ago. (…) As the two of us were skating away, Chopin suddenly fell on the ice, either because he hit a stone or because his skates were poorly secured, and blood started oozing from his head. I looked on in fear as he went pale and lost strength. (…) There was, however, more fear than pain involved. Even though the surgeon Dr Szwencki was called for immediately, Fryderyk was at school as usual the next day.”
On the profile · Feb 3, 2026