Life of Chopin

This biography of Frederic Chopin by his friend and fellow artist, Franz Liszt, offers a highly informed assessment of the Polish composer's musical legacy. It's further enlivened by the author's personal acquaintance with Chopin's other friends, who included Sand, Balzac, Hugo, Berlioz, Delacroix, and Schumann. Liszt surveys the brilliance of several of Chopin's masterpieces.

Composer, conductor, and teacher Franz Liszt (1811–86) was renowned throughout Europe for his skills as a concert pianist. The quintessential romantic, he created an extensive and diverse oeuvre that ranges from influential experiments in musical form to more conventional pieces as well as transcriptions of works by other composers.

Dedication

v

Preface

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Chopin---Style and Improvements---The Adagio of the Second Concerto---Funeral March---Psychological Character of the Compositions of Chopin

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National Character of the Polonaise---Oginsky---Meyseder---Weber---Chopin---His Polonaise in F sharp Minor---Polonaise Fantaisie

12

(18)

Chopin's Mazourkas---Polish Ladies---Mazourka in Poland Tortured Motives---Early Life of Chopin---Zal

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Chopin's Mode of Playing---Concerts---The Elite---Fading Bouquets and Immortal Crowns---Hospitality---Heine---Meyerbeer---Adolphe Nourrit---Eugene Delacroix---Niemcevicz---Mickiewicz---George Sand

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The Lives of Artists---Pure Fame of Chopin---Reserve---Classic and Romantic Art---Language of the Slavs---Chopin's Love of Home---Memories

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Birth and Early Life of Chopin---National Artists---Chopin Embodies in Himself the Poetic Sense of his Whole Nation---Opinion of Beethoven

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Madame Sand---Lelia---Visit to Majorca---Exclusive Ideals

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Disappointment---III Health---Visit to England---Devotion of Friends---Last Sacraments---Delphine Potocka---Louise---M. Gutman---Death

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