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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?
Nov 27, 2020 · Chopin’s most studied love affair to date was with the French novelist George Sand – real name Aurore Dupin Dudevant – who changed her moniker in order to be taken seriously in 19th-century, male-dominated literary circles.
- Maddy Shaw Roberts
- The Letters Have Disappeared
- Unproven Footnotes Refer to Women
- Mythical Romances
- Systematic Construct
- Appearance Versus Reality
- Distorted Beyond Recognition
- Homosexuality as A Political Issue
Of all the things it is the very letters Chopin received from Tytus and from other men that are presumed lost. They are likely to also contain homoerotic text: «Dearest Tytus! I received your last letter, in which you tell me to kiss you.»(11/14/1829) Chopin’s letters to those men were written in Polish – too high a barrier for many researchers. Th...
In line with the footnotes it was (and still is) suggested that Chopin speaks about women. But the statements in the footnotes are not corroborated anywhere. None of the renowned biographers like Alan Walker nor the powerful Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw (NIFC), which is internationally acclaimed as the temple of knowledge about Chopin, can d...
Chopin himself writes nothing about the romantic affairs described in those footnotes in flowery terms. The respective teenagers play only a very marginal role in his letters. The alleged affairs and the unproven engagement all belong in the realm of myths. Most researchers today agree that Chopin’s much-described «relationship» with George Sand wa...
The rather coarse but all the more systematically built-up construct from footnotes and mistranslated words has stubbornly persisted until today. It still distracts the attention from what’s obvious from Chopin’s own hand: his equally intimate and passionate feeling for Tytus Woyciechowski, who may have been the love of his life. And his feelings f...
Chopin deliberately separated inside and outside. He paid careful attention as to how he appeared in public – a recurring motive in his letters and a quality often observed by his environment. «One must respect the concealment of hidden feelings.» (5/15/1830) Musicology has long found it difficult to deal with the homosexuality of great classical m...
To date, Chopin’s emotional and erotic relationship with Woyciechowski, the most important relationship in his life, has been distorted or marginalized beyond recognition – even in otherwise reliable sources of reference. In Wikipedia proven details of this relationship were instantly deleted. «I am going to wash. Don’t kiss me now, because I haven...
With Chopin the issue is loaded with a political dimension today: For the Catholic leaning national conservative ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) Chopin’s love for Tytus Woyciechowski is likely to be most unwelcome. After all, many of its high-ranking representatives act aggressively against minorities, even supporting inhumane ideas like «LGBTQ-...
Aug 1, 2019 · Chopin’s letters praised the natural beauty, calm and “poetic feeling” of the island. He took pleasure in the “African sun”, the blue sea and the eagles he watched gliding overhead. Sand,...
- Natalia Nowakowska
After the first few months of their love affair in Paris, George Sand and Chopin decided to go on a trip to Mallorca in October 1838. They spent the summer together away from prying eyes...
Alexandre Manceau (1817–1865), long time lover of George Sand from 1849 to 1865. Another breach was caused by Chopin's attitude toward Sand's daughter, Solange. [32] Chopin continued to be cordial to Solange after she and her husband Auguste Clésinger fell out with Sand over money.
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For her part, Sand was suspicious of Chopin's bond with Solange, and though convinced he was not well enough to have acted on his desires, she was persuaded he had fallen in love with her daughter.
