Why so much Choppin'?

I only have time to post this before I go work so I have to make this brief!  I was trying to find a concrete reason for Frederic's choice of Chopin for Celia to play, and after a quick look through Wikipedia, I came across something about Chopin that was interesting.  There is a section in his Wiki that mentions his national pride for his home country of Poland.  At the time they were occupied by the Russian Empire, and he wrote Revolutionary Etude in memory of the unsucessful 1830 uprising.  Not sure if this is important at all but I would like to see what you guys thought about it and if you can make any more connections.