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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.
Consistent with her male pen name identity, Sand portrays the entire visit as if she were a male friend of Chopin's. In the winter of 1838, the author takes the boat to Majorca and docks at Palma, accompanied by Sand's children and Frédéric Chopin, seriously ill. They stay in the city, then at the Cartoixa de Valldemossa. Sand writes that the ...
Two Polish friends in Paris were also to play important roles in Chopin's life there. A fellow student at the Warsaw Conservatory, Julian Fontana, had originally tried unsuccessfully to establish himself in England; Fontana was to become, in the words of the music historian Jim Samson, Chopin's "general factotum and copyist". [54]
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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 ...
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 ...
Frédéric Chopin’s same-sex attractions were deliberately overlooked by biographers and archivists, according to a new show on the life of the legendary composer and pianist. Widely recognized ...
Speculation as to the reason for Chopin's premature death led to requests by scholars and scientists to conduct an analysis of the heart tissue. While he was said to have died from tuberculosis, it was speculated that he may have had cystic fibrosis. A request to sample the heart tissue was refused by the Polish government, but the heart's ...