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Franz Liszt is living in Chamonix with Countess Marie D'Agoult, the mother of his children, when Frédéric Chopin and George Sand visit him. They tell him about all the things he has missed since he left Paris, and how a new piano virtuoso, Sigismond Thalberg, is captivating audiences. The Countess wants him to remain in seclusion and compose.
Chopin: Desire for Love (Polish: Chopin. Pragnienie miłości) is a film created by the director Jerzy Antczak based on the life story of the Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin. The plot covers the affair between Chopin and feminist writer George Sand. Chopin's music is integral to the film, with pianist Janusz Olejniczak playing his ...
Towards the end of the film, Sand and Chopin dedicate a volume of music to the Countess, although this only implies that she has had an affair with Chopin, causing a falling-out with her lover Liszt. Sand and Chopin depart for Majorca , relieved to escape the competitive nature of artistic alliances and jealousies in Paris.
The film won Best Feature Film at New Jersey International Film Festival's Spring 2023 edition. [7] Natalie Tango at New Jersey Stage compared the film to Taxi Driver and said it is a phenomenal psychological horror film, complimenting DeCesare's performance and claiming the color "tones of blue and red help indicate the film’s negative, depressing theme."
The world’s view of Chopin, who left Poland for Paris at barely 21 years old and struggled with his health for most of his life, has been completely “distorted,” claimed the director.
Funérailles is subtitled "October 1849". This has often been interpreted as a sort of funeral speech for Liszt's friend Frédéric Chopin, who died on 17 October 1849, and also due to fact that the piece's left-hand octaves are closely related to the central section of Chopin's "Heroic" Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53, written seven years earlier.
A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in ...
Chopin and Alkan were personal friends and often discussed musical topics, including a work on musical theory that Chopin proposed to write. [41] By 1838, at 25 years old, Alkan had reached a peak of his career. [42] He frequently gave recitals, his more mature works had begun to be published, and he often appeared in concerts with Liszt and ...