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Jan 28, 2021 · In her novel, Lucrezia Floriani, Sand modeled a character named Karol, an Eastern European (a nod to Chopin’s Polish origins) prince who is ill and being cared for by the main character of the book, Lucrezia. Many took the fictional couple to represent Sand and Chopin’s relationship.
It’s one of the most romanticized love affairs in music history: dashing cross-dressing woman novelist George Sand becomes obsessed with, and then seduces, the sickly consumptive pianist-composer Frédéric Chopin. But how much of this story is real, and how much of it is just mythologizing?
Sands read her “roman à clef” in Chopin’s presence at Nohant, causing considerable anguish among their friends. Eugène Delacroix wrote, “I went through torment during that reading. Mme Sand felt no compunction, and Chopin took unfeigned delight in the tale.”
May 22, 2021 · During his stay with the French writer George Sand on the island of Mallorca, he wrote the world-famous “Rainbow Prelude”. Chopin’s dreamy Mallorca pieces flow into the creative contemplation of the pictures as musical recommendations.
Jan 24, 2024 · Years would pass, and she would be credited with having affairs with almost the entire literary beau monde of France, but today, we delve into the poignant love story with virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin, a relationship that left a profound mark on Aurore's soul.
Nov 20, 2023 · Chopin’s affair with George Sand surprised them both. In 1836, Chopin met the successful French writer George Sand. “What an unattractive person la Sand is! Is she really a woman?” he wrote. For her part, George Sand was attracted to Chopin’s fragility and creative genius.
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Jan 2, 2005 · In her “Story of My Life,” Sand’s fascinating if unreliable memoir, there’s a famous confrontation between 13-year-old Aurore and the aristocratic grandmother who adopted her and paid the...
