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Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt, is a 1960 biographical film romance about Franz Liszt made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor , who died during the shooting of the film and was replaced by George Cukor .
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.
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.
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.
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.
Franz Liszt [n 1] (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
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 ...
It is based on the life of the composer Frédéric Chopin and his relationship with George Sand. It was produced by the German company Boston Films as the French-language version of the German film Farewell Waltz. Such multiple-language versions were common in the early years of sound before dubbing became widespread.