| Description |
230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1: Departures. Lacrymosa dies illa: 'What weeping on that day" -- First meetings -- A genius in the family -- The education of an exile -- pt. 2: Arrivals. The capital of desire -- Preludes to paradise -- Homecoming -- Labors of love -- Earthquakes and harvests -- Children of paradise -- Deaths foretold -- Forty pounds of jam -- A victim of time -- Lucrezia Floriani -- Winter journeys -- The expulsion from paradise -- "The abyss called London" -- Recordare -- Appendix: Chopin's photograph |
| Summary |
Annotation Frederic Chopin's reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image. A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest of Parisian society, the Polish emigre was for a while blessed with genius, acclaim, and the love of Europe's most infamous woman writer, George Sand. But by the age of 39, the man whose brilliant compositions had thrilled audiences in the most fashionable salons lay dying of consumption, penniless and abandoned by his lover. In the fall of 1849, his lavish funeral was attended by thousands--but not by George Sand. In this intimate portrait of an embattled man, Eisler tells the story of a turbulent love affair, of pain and loss redeemed by art, and of worlds--both private and public--convulsed by momentous change |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index |
| Subject |
Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849 -- Death and burial
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Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849 -- Last years
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Sand, George, 1804-1876
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Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849 |
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Sand, George, 1804-1876 |
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Death and burial of a person
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Last years of a person's life
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2002073097 |
| ISBN |
0375708685 |
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9780375708688 |
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