February 22 is a special date for lovers of Fryderyk Chopin's music because of the composer's birthday. This year I celebrated the 210th anniversary of this event by performing a recital during the concert celebrating this musical festival at the Posnania Gallery. If someone decided to organize them 190 years ago, Chopin would not be interested in it. Despite the date from the baptism record made in the parish church in Brochów, he decided to celebrate his birthday March 1, because for reasons unknown to historians. Was the reason for this decision a season of the year or an event, memory or emotion? We will never find out. What remains clear to us is the enormous impact of this event on all classical music as well as our culture and national heritage.