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Jan 28, 2021 · In November, Chopin and Sand decided to bring along Sand’s two children from her marriage on a sort of honeymoon in Majorca, Spain. The trip started off with good intentions, passion, and the sea. Chopin even completed his 23 preludes, a set of 10 preludes for solo piano, in all of the major and minor keys.
Sand sews while Chopin plays piano, in a hypothetical reconstruction of Delacroix's 1838 painting, Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand. Sand and Chopin also spent many long summers at Sand's country manor in Nohant from 1839 to 1846, skipping only 1840.
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?
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The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix. He made sketches for it before 1838, a more detailed one of Chopin alone and another, more coarse one of the two.
George Sand and Chopin in love: a spotlight on their relationship in Majorca - Classical Music.
Chopin and Sand eventually formed a romantic relationship. In November of 1838, the couple spent three months in Majorca, where Chopin completed his 23 preludes in each of the major and minor keys. The so-called honeymoon for Chopin and Sand proved to be a disaster.
A Winter in Majorca (whose original title in French is Un hiver à Majorque) is an autobiographical travel novel written by George Sand, at the time in a relationship with Frédéric Chopin. Although published in 1842, it appeared for the first time in 1841 in the Revue des deux Mondes.
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