Frédéric Chopin’s reputation as one of the Great Romantics
endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac
biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic
image.
A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest
of Parisian society, the Polish émigré was for a while blessed with
genius, acclaim, and the love of Europe’s most infamous woman
writer, George Sand. But by the age of 39, the man whose brilliant
compositions had thrilled audiences in the most fashionable salons
lay dying of consumption, penniless and abandoned by his lover. In
the fall of 1849, his lavish funeral was attended by thousands—but
not by George Sand.
In this intimate portrait of an embattled man, Eisler tells the
story of a turbulent love affair, of pain and loss redeemed by art,
and of worlds—both private and public—convulsed by momentous
change.
關於作者：
Benita Eisler is the author of O’Keeffe and Stieglitz: An
American Romance and Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. She
lives in New York City.
目錄：
PART Ⅰ :
ONE: Lacrymosa dies illa." "What weeping on that day"
TWO: First Meetings
THREE: A Genius in the Family
FOUR: The Education of an Exile
PART Ⅱ:
FIVE: The Capital of Desire
six: Preludes to Paradise
SEVEN: Homecoming
EIGHT: Labors of Love
NINE: Earthquakes and Harvests
TEN: Children of Paradise
ELEVEN: Deaths Foretold
TWELVE: Forty Pounds of Jam
THIRTEEN: A Victim of Time
FOURTEEN: LucreTia Floriani
FIFTEEN: Winter Journeys
SIXTEEN: The Expulsion from Paradise.
SEVENTEEN: "The AbyssCalled London"
EIGHTEEN: Recordare
Appendix: Chopin''s Photograph
Notes and Sources
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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