Known as one of history's greatest romantic composers, Polish-born Frederic Chopin's story is just as riveting as the music he composed. Chopin was born in Poland in 1810. As a young boy, he had a noticeable aptitude for music. While still in his adolescence, he moved to France to start composing and playing music. The pedigree he was born with, along with his ambition to showcase his talent gave him the title "a genius in music.  Chopin was born in a family of talented musicians. His mother, Justyna, was a very good piano player. Frederic was known to sit underneath the piano as his mother played for hours, learning and understanding the music played above him. At a very young age, Chopin had already learned to play the flute and violin, two instruments his father played. When he was six years old, his parents found him sitting on the piano bench, and decided it was time to get him professional lessons. His first teacher, Adalbert Zywny, was a court pianist in Warsaw, Poland. Zywny was Chopin's formal teacher for six years until Chopin left to learn under the great Jozef Elsner at Warsaw Conservatory. In 1828, Chopin dedicated one of his compositions, Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor to Elsner. Throughout Chopin's career, however, he spoke very highly of Zywny as well. Zywny was credited with enhancing Chopin's talents to the point where, by seven years old, Chopin was being compared to other child prodigies such as Beethoven and Mozart. The term child prodigy does not begin to classify Chopin's talent as a child. At seven years old, Chopin was already writing music. He quickly earned the nickname "Little Chopin . His compositions were said to rival famous Polish composers' works such as Michal Oginski. By age eleven, Chopin performed as a pianist for Alexander I, the Tsar of Russia. He was regularly invited to the Belweder Palace to play for the Grand Duke Constantine, Russian Poland's ruler. At fifteen, after a startling impromptu performance of a piece written by Ignaz Moscheles, he was dubbed "the best pianist in Warsaw.  It was in these teenage years, under the wing of Elsner, when Chopin truly blossomed. Elsner's teaching style was unique. Rather than micro-managing Chopin during these years when most would theorize he needed it most, Elsner decided not to constrain Chopin with rules and rubrics, rather he guided Chopin as the prodigy learned music theory and composition at a level never seen before. Even composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were still apprentices at comparable ages, nowhere near the development Chopin was exhibiting. Even as a teenager, Chopin's style he is best known for was already in display. While Chopin