with a French expatriate father and a Polish mother, was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin.
He was a Polish patriot who did what he could as a Pole - popularizing Polish dance forms, traveling on a French passport to avoid using that of the Russian Empire
If you play piano, you learn Chopin, he is an essential part of the repertoire. Although his first published work was a sonata for Cello and Piano. Still, we know him for his piano music, such as this performance by another great pianist/composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff: