Chopin Family Parlor
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| Established | 1960 |
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| Location | Warsaw, Poland |
| Type | Biographical |
| Website | Fryderyk Chopin Museum |
The Chopin Family Parlor (Polish: Salonik Chopinów) is a branch of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum. It is in the south annex of the Czapski Palace at 5 Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, Poland. It is the largest room of the former Chopin family apartment where Frédéric Chopin lived with his parents and sisters until he left Poland in 1830.
The family moved to the Czapski Palace (then called the Krasiński Palace) from a Warsaw University building, across the street, in June 1827, just a few weeks after the death of Frédéric's youngest sister, Emilia. Her death was the reason for the move, as it was emotionally difficult for the family to remain in the apartment that had witnessed her decline and death.
The new apartment comprised two levels. The family lived in a large second-floor flat, and the garret served as a boarding house for male students. The latter was run by Frédéric's father, Nicolas Chopin. In a letter to his friend Tytus Wojciechowski dated 27 December 1828, Frédéric mentioned that one of the former boarding-school rooms had been turned into a study for him. It contained only a desk and piano; it has not been reconstructed.
It was in the Czapski (Krasiński) Palace that Frédéric Chopin composed and first played for family and friends some of his most important youthful works, including Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, and Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Frequent visitors included Józef Elsner, Samuel Linde, Juliusz Kolberg, Kajetan Koźmian, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, and Stefan Witwicki.
On 2 November 1930 a commemorative plaque was unveiled between the windows of the annex second floor (viewed from the Krakowskie Przedmieście side). The inscription in Polish reads:
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