07/09/2022
For perhaps one of those 'well, I never knew that' moments.
Frederick Chopin (1810 – 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music’s greatest tone poets.
Frederick Chopin was an advocate of homeopathy. In Paris, Chopin consulted homeopaths Jean Jacques Molin and Leon Francois Adolphe Simon. In London Chopin consulted homeopath Henry Victor Malan who was a friend of his ‘Scottish ladies’ (Mrs. Erskine, the wife of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, recommended Henry Victor Malan to Frederic Chopin, who she knew well from Paris, and who was visiting London and Scotland, where they attended seances together).
Chopin came to Britain after an invitation from Jane Wilhelmina Stirling, youngest daughter of John Stirling, Laird of Kippendavie, where he met their Polish born homeopath Adam Lyszczynski who had married and settled in Scotland. Chopin was extremely ill with tuberculosis when he arrived in Scotland, but after homeopathic treatment he was soon well enough to travel and to perform.
Read more from the brilliant Sue Young here: https://www.sueyounghistories.com/2008-09-20-frederick-chopin-1810-1849/
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