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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.
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.
The professor takes Chopin to Café de la Bohème, where they encounter famous personalities such as Liszt, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and Honoré de Balzac. Despite a turbulent encounter with a critic, Friedrich Kalkbrenner , Chopin is introduced to Liszt, who introduces him to George Sand , a writer known for her masculine attire.
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]
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 ...
After the German Army captured Warsaw in 1939, performances of Chopin's music were banned, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute was shuttered, and the Frédéric Chopin Monument in Ĺazienki Park was destroyed. [5] During the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the Holy Cross Church was damaged and captured by the Nazis. A German priest by the name of Schulze ...
While a student, he first became acquainted with Béla Bartók, who remained a lifelong friend. [3] Kentner commenced his concert career at the age of 15. Until 1931, he was known internationally as Ludwig Kentner. [4] In 1932, he was awarded the 5th Prize at the II International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw; and he won a Liszt Prize in ...
Liszt plays music to exorcise Wagner. Cosima imprisons Liszt and resurrects Wagner in a Nazi ceremony as a Frankenstein-Hitler wielding a machine-gun guitar. Cosima leads the Wagner-Hitler to gun down the town's Jews and kills Liszt with a voodoo doll. In Heaven, Liszt is reunited with the women he romanced in his life and Cosima, who live in ...