I teach at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communicaation and Information at the Nanyang Technological University.

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

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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

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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

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Baron Casimir Dudevant

journalist and novelist

Jules Sandeau

George Sand

Geneva

childhood home in Nohant

Hotel de France

Liszt introduced Chopin to George Sand

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Is that really a woman?

I seriously doubt it.

Something about he repels me

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