Literature reflecting on Frederic Chopin’s visits to the spa towns of western Czechia

Motto: He is not only a virtuoso, he is also a poet, he can express the poetry living in his soul; he is a composer, and nothing equals the joy he gives us when he sits down at the piano and improvises. In that moment, he is not Polish, French or German; he reveals a much higher provenance, from the land of Mozart, Raphael, Goethe; his true homeland is the enchanted realm of poetry. (Heinrich Heine)