Frederick Chopin: a man of solitude
by comte Guy de Pourtalès
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pourtalès, Guy de, comte, 1881-1941
- Title
- Frederick Chopin : A man of solitude
- Original Publication
- London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.
- Credits
- Sean/IB@DP
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- ML: Music: Literature of music
- Subject
- Composers -- Poland -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 76904
- Release Date
- September 21, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FREDERICK CHOPIN: A MAN OF SOLITUDE
- 2.DEDICATION
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I “An angel, fair of face as a tall, sad woman”
- 5.CHAPTER II The Childhood of Chopin
- 6.CHAPTER III The Birth of the Poet
- 7.CHAPTER IV “Sorrow” and “Ideal”
- 8.CHAPTER V Revolution at Warsaw and Solitude at Vienna
- 9.CHAPTER VI “I doubt whether there is a city on Earth where more pianists are to be found than in Paris”
- 10.CHAPTER VII Happy Years, Working Years
- 11.CHAPTER VIII Marie Wodzinska and the Dusk
- 12.CHAPTER IX First Sketch of George Sand
- 13.CHAPTER X Letters of Two Novelists
- 14.CHAPTER XI The Chartreuse of Valdemosa
- 15.CHAPTER XII “If music be the food of love, play on”
- 16.CHAPTER XIII On some Friendships of Chopin, and on his Æsthetics
- 17.CHAPTER XIV Misunderstandings, Loneliness
- 18.CHAPTER XV Chagrin, Hate
- 19.CHAPTER XVI The Story of an Estrangement
- 20.CHAPTER XVII Swan Song
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII “The Cypresses have their caprices”
- 22.CHAPTER XIX The Death of Chopin
- 23.CHAPTER XX An Epitaph for a Poet
- 24.SOURCES
- 25.PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED
- 26.INDEX
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