Poland’s anti-LGBTQ historians have been hiding composer Frederic Chopin’s gay love letters

Polish Composer Frederic Chopin
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Frederic Chopin, the 19th-century composer known for his Romantic-era piano pieces, is a much-revered figure in his home country of Poland. So it’s no wonder that music journalist Moritz Weber made waves in the anti-LGBTQ country when he recently revealed that Chopin wrote sexual notes and love letters to his male friends.

Chopin had relationships with women like writer Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (whose nom de plume — pen name — was George Sand) and Maria Wodzińska, who he was briefly engaged to. But in a recent Swiss radio documentary, Weber said Chopin’s letters to the two women weren’t nearly as explicit or loving as his letters to men.

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“He didn’t write letters to [those women] at all. And he doesn’t write about them in a way that you could conclude there was love,” Weber said, adding that his relationships with women seem like that of an artist t0 a benefactor rather than one of passion.

“What is obvious in his letters that there is love written to his male friends,” Weber continued, “most passionately to Tytus Woyciechowski.”

Woyciechowski was a political activist and art patron who lived with Chopin’s birth family in his youth. Though Woyciechowski later married a woman, he named his second son Fryderyk, after Chopin.

“As always, I carry your letters with me,” Chopin wrote to Woyciechowski in a letter dated March 27, 1830. “How good it will be for me to take out your letter and make sure that you love me. And at least to look at the writing and the hand of the one I can only love.”

In an April 4, 1830 letter, Chopin wrote to him…

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