Chopin & George Sand
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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a composer and pianist, the son of a Polish mother and French father who lived most of his short and sickly life in France. He composed primarily for piano and when healthy was an avid member of a Parisian group of lively artists and aristocrats. The writer George Sand (1804-1876) was infamous in her time for wearing men’s clothes and her numerous love affairs, many with famous artists like Musset and Chopin. The writer changer her name to George Sand from Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant. The decade-long affair between Sand and Chopin reveals a great deal more than just the love of two people and the joys and challenged of real love. For in looking at these aspects of their affair, we see a great deal uncovered about their views on love, life, and art.There is no denying the love between Chopin and Sand was real. However, the similarities appear to end there in terms of personality and worldview. Sand was a married woman at the time she met Chopin. She was no stranger to love or physical union. In debt, a heavy smoker, and a social butterfly, Sand took umbrage to the use of the term physical love, believing “…for ‘lofty spirits’ there was no such thing as a purely fleshly love”(Winegarten 212). Unfeminine and mentally and physically strong, Sand did play the pursuer when she first met her “Le Chopinet.” However, she was taken aback by the views and personality of the shy,
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ortion of their time spent together, coughing up blood and being seen as a leper by the community. Nonetheless, their union inspired productive work periods for both of them “Both Chopin and Sand were able to work well. Towards the end of January Chopin sent Fontana his twenty-four Preludes (opus 28). When Sand had spoken of one piece’s ‘imitative harmony’, Chopin vociferously denied her ‘puerile’ interpretation. ‘He was right,’ Sand later wrote. ‘His genius was full of mysterious harmonies of nature, translated by means of sublime equivalents in his musical thinking, and not by servile repetition of exterior sounds” (Jack 284).
The pair first began their affair in 1837, shortly after Chopin’s departure from Maria Wodzinska, a childhood love who he became engaged to but never married. When he returned to Paris he was hurt and disillusioned, against which the sympathetic nature of Sand acted as balm. During their meetings, they discovered a mutual love for opera and the theater while Sand expressed her appreciation of music as the “greatest of the arts” (Winegarten 210). Chopin was hesitant and indecisive, as was typical of his demeanor, over furthering their relationship. Sand had to impart the first kiss, and she did
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Approximate Word count = 2541
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)
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