Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki (180631 March 1828,
Sokołowo, Golub-Dobrzyń) was a childhood friend and correspondent of
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composer
Frédéric Chopin
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.
[Mysłakowski and Sikorski (2007),]
Born into an aristocratic family, Białobłocki began in 1816 to study at the
Warsaw Lyceum, where one of his teachers was
Nicolas Chopin, the composer's father; Białobłocki lodged with the Chopin family. In 1823 Białobłocki commenced studies at
Warsaw University
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. He became a close friend of Frédéric, who addressed numerous letters to him, using Białobłocki's
nickname
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, Jasio.
In 1828 Białobłocki died of
tuberculosis
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of the bone,
[Walker (2018), p. 121] unmarried, at his family estate of Sokołowo.
References
;Notes
;Sources
*Mysłakowski, Peter, and Andrzej Sikorski (2007),
Jan Białobłocki', in Fryderyk Chopin Institute website, accessed 14 February 2014.
* Walker, Alan (2018). ''Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times''. London: Faber and Faber.
1800s births
1828 deaths
19th-century Polish letter writers
University of Warsaw alumni
Frédéric Chopin
19th-century composers
19th-century Polish musicians
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