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In March 1839, Sand realized that Chopin needed medical attention and took him to Marseille, where he was diagnosed with consumption (tuberculosis). Their affair ended in 1848 after, among other things, Sand's unflattering portrayal of their relationship in her 1846 novel Lucrezia Floriani. Other possibilities that have been advanced have included cystic fibrosis,[84] cirrhosis, and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency.[85] A visual examination of Chopin's preserved heart (the jar was not opened), conducted in 2014 and first published in the American Journal of Medicine in 2017, suggested that the likely cause of his death was a rare case of pericarditis caused by complications of chronic tuberculosis.[86]

Titles, opus numbers and editions

Autographed musical quotation from the Polonaise Op.

53, signed by Chopin on 25 May 1845

Some of Chopin's well-known pieces have acquired descriptive titles, such as the Revolutionary Étude (Op. "The composer who never grew up,"The Guardian, June 21, 2003. Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day. Is she really a woman?"[47] However, by early 1837 Maria Wodzińska's mother had made it clear to Chopin in correspondence that a marriage with her daughter was unlikely to proceed.

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  • Samson, Jim. "Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek," in Grove Music Online.

    frederic francois chopin biography and works

    1849

    • Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin)[1] March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

    Career

    Chopin plays for the Radziwiłłs, 1829 (painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1887)

    Travel and domestic success

    In September 1828 Chopin, while still a student, visited Berlin with a family friend, zoologist Feliks Jarocki, enjoying operas directed by Gaspare Spontini and attending concerts by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Felix Mendelssohn, and other celebrities.

    translation of "Funeral of Frédéric Chopin", in Revue et gazette musicale, November 4, 1847.

  • ↑Walker 2018, 620–624.
  • ↑In 1879 the heart was sealed within a pillar of the Holy Cross Church, behind a tablet carved by Leonard Marconi. Sand, who was six years older than the composer and had had a series of lovers, wrote at this time: "I must say I was confused and amazed at the effect this little creature had on me ...

    This meeting prompted him to stay for two weeks in Dresden, when he had previously intended to return to Paris via Leipzig. 58}}

  • ↑Schumann, 114.
  • ↑Charles Cooke, "Chopin and Liszt with a Ghostly Twist," Notes 22(2) (Winter 1965 – Winter 1966): 856–861.
  • ↑Liszt, 1503.
  • ↑George S. Golos, "Some Slavic Predecessors of Chopin," The Musical Quarterly 46(4) (October 1960): 437–447., 439–442.
  • ↑Barbara Milewski, "Chopin's Mazurkas and the Myth of the Folk," 19th-Century Music 23(2) (Autumn 1999): 113–135., 113–121.
  • ↑Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0195384833), 344–346.
  • ↑Rosen, 284.
  • ↑Jones 1998a, 160, 162.
  • ↑Walker 2018, 422-423, 464–467.
  • ↑Marianne Wheeldon, Debussy's Late Style (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0253352392), 55–62.
  • ↑J.

    He wrote the sixth (and final) variation on Bellini's theme.

    Chopin's qualities as a pianist and composer were recognized by many of his fellow musicians. He was 39. ISBN 978-0786445110

  • Ståhlbrand, Robert. The Institute site also lists over 1500 performances of Chopin works on YouTube. While his illness and his love affairs conform to some of the stereotypes of Romanticism, the rarity of his public recitals (as opposed to performances at fashionable Paris soirées) led Arthur Hutchings to suggest that "his lack of Byronic flamboyance [and] his aristocratic reclusiveness make him exceptional" among his romantic contemporaries such as Liszt and Henri Herz.

    Life of Chopin 4th edition, translated by }Martha Walker Cook. He played the piano for Konstantin Pavlovich and composed a march for him. 4.

  • ↑Aleksander Jełowicki, "Letter to Ksawera Grocholska,"The Frederick Chopin Institute.