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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?
Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand by Eugène Delacroix. Lucrezia is 30 and Prince Karol 24, the same ages as Sand and Chopin at the beginning of their affair. The Prince has recently lost both his mother and fiancée, and mysteriously succumbs to an unnamed illness.
May 22, 2021 · One chapter of the book “Art Retreat 2020-21” is dedicated to the 210th anniversary of birth of the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. During his stay with the French writer George Sand on the island of Mallorca, he wrote the world-famous “Rainbow Prelude”.
Nov 20, 2023 · 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. They finally became lovers in 1838, and Sand, who had already had many affairs, wrote, “I must say I was confused and ...
Frédéric Chopin, the virtuoso pianist and composer, met Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, in the vibrant artistic circles of Paris in the 1830s. Despite their starkly...
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Jun 7, 2023 · In a previous column I mentioned Chopin’s heartbreak at his broken “engagement” (formal or otherwise) to Maria Wodsińska in 1837. A year before, he had met the French novelist, memoirist and journalist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, better known as George Sand (1804-12879) at a party.
