Chopin
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Oct 30, 1849
Church of the Madeleine
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his friend, Delacroix
arrived in France in 1831
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portrait by Delacriox
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death - Oct 17
aged 39
Mozart’s Requiem
p. 7
special dispensation
remained invisible
behind a black velvet curtain
Funeral march from Chopin’s Sonata in b-flat minor
Adam and Alexandre Czartoryski — representated Polish exiles
Eugene Delacroix
cellist and composer — Auguste Franchomme — cello — only instrument other than the piano
Camille Playel — manufacturer of pianos
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Ludwika — “Please come, if you can.”
Apply for a passport immediately.
No medicine would help him as much as the sight of his sister.
husband — Jozef Kalasany Jedrzejewicz
15 year old daughter
arrived in paris in August
student — Adolf Gutmann
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princess — Marcelina Czartoryska
Countess Delfina Potocka (rushed from Nice)
Pere Lachaise Cemetary
sculptor — Auguste Clesinger + wife Solange (daughter or George Sand)
mould death mask
funerary monument
Jane Stirling — Scottish heiress
pupil and patroness
paid the bill for the funeral
5000 pounds
supported Chopin in the last year of his life
Absent — George Sand
p. 11
Solange -> Countess Mariliani -> George Sand
Chopin died in Solange’s arms
Sand was in her country house in Nohant
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Fryk-Fryk
Chip-Chip
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Countess Marie Catherine Sophie de Flacigny d’Agoult
aristocratic French mother
husband and two children
live with Franz Liszt
soirees
Victor Hugo + Rossini + Meyerbeer + Berlioz + Chopin
Aurore Dupin Dudevant
p. 16
Baron Casimir Dudevant
journalist and novelist
Jules Sandeau
George Sand
Geneva
childhood home in Nohant
Hotel de France
Liszt introduced Chopin to George Sand
p. 18
Is that really a woman?
I seriously doubt it.
Something about he repels me
7 months ago