 The history of her early years and especially her musical studies is uncertain; she appears to have studied piano with Antoni Lisowski and Tomasz Gremm, and composition with Franciszek Lessel, Józef Elsner and Karol Kurpiński.She gave her first public recitals in Warsaw and Paris in 1810.In the same year, she married Józef Szymanowski (d. 1832), with whom she had three children while living in Poland