# Chopin gives his first Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel Date: 1832 ## The fact On 26 February 1832 [Chopin](/people/frederic-chopin) gave his first Paris concert in the Salle Pleyel, playing his piano concertos before an invited and ticketed audience that included Paris pianists. It is not the 1841 mature concert, not the 16 February 1848 farewell, and not a later firm’s anniversary gala. Kalkbrenner’s circle and Pleyel’s instrument stood in the same room; the playing and the works were Chopin’s. Reviews in the Paris press, including Fétis, registered a new pianistic manner. The row stores one debut. It does not convert every later Pleyel endorsement into extra debuts. ## Context Paris after 1830 was a paying market for pianists: Herz, Hiller, Liszt, and Kalkbrenner already sold touch as a brand. A Warsaw émigré needed a house with a good piano and a critic’s ear. The Salle Pleyel on this date is a concert room attached to a maker, not a ministry of culture. Liszt’s later advocacy is a neighbouring career, not this playbill. Do not treat the 1832 concert as a democratic assembly. Do not treat later international competitions as this night. Fétis and the Pleyel room made a paying public for the concertos; Kalkbrenner’s presence is market weather, not co-authorship of the solo part. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later competitions as this concert. Mixed effects of Chopin gives his first Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel are separate paths. ## Evidence and sources Pleyel’s house-history pages locate the concert rooms and the maker’s nineteenth-century Paris role. Britannica independently dates the 26 February 1832 debut and the Salle Pleyel setting. Official: https://www.pleyel.com/en. Independent: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin. Different publishers. The Chopin Institute calendar corroborates the date as a finding aid; Wikipedia is not used as a causal source. The two named locators establish house, city, and date, not ticket receipts. Official or archival record: Pleyel — house history and concert rooms (https://www.pleyel.com/en; Pleyel). ## Significance Improving education path: Paris heard the concertos from the composer’s hands in a public room. High confidence on the date. Modest weight: one debut does not rewrite French conservatory statutes. Exclusive Pleyel patronage, stored elsewhere as a gate on access, is a different path from this public night. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. ## What is established and what is not Established: Chopin’s first Paris concert took place on 26 February 1832 at the Salle Pleyel. Not established: a unique French musical-literacy coefficient, or that every later pianist who played a Chopin concerto in Paris repeats this debut. A contradictory 1832 playbill with another hall would change the row. A 1927 Warsaw competition would not. Shared responsibility is part of Chopin gives his first Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1832-02-26 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## People - Frédéric Chopin: https://factrail.ai/people/frederic-chopin ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.pleyel.com/en - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-paris-debut-1832