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Frédéric Chopin and George Sand: Love in Illness
Since we talk about love and hope, today I want to continue with those forbidden, impossible and crazy loves that we have heard or read about. Passionate loves, but truncated by society, by third parties and even by death. Today I will tell you the story of a failed love between one of the best musicians in history and a novelist: Frédéric Chopin and George Sand.
As we all know, Chopin is one of the most famous composers and pianists of universal music, so much so that he is considered the inventor of the modern piano. From George Sand perhaps we have heard less and is that this was the pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, French writer, who wrote Indiana, Lélia, El compañero de Francia, Consuelo, Los maestros soñadores, among other novels. It is said that within the circle of friends of this writer were the composer Franz Liszt, the painter Eugène Delacroix, the writers Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Julio Verne and Gustave Flaubert.
There is much we can read about the behaviour, manners and way of dressing of George Sand, who apparently dressed as a man to be able to walk freely in Paris; it is also said that he had behaviours that could create polemics for the time and for his class, such as he smoked, was independent, egomaniac, a liar and had many lovers, including the famous writer of the short novel Carmen, Prosper Mérimée, Alfred De Musset and the French novelist Sandeau from whom he assumed the surname.
From the first meeting between George Sand and Chopin we know by one of his letters:
Today I met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand. His appearance is not pleasant. In fact there is something about her that undoubtedly repels me. What a unattractive person! Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
Chopin's novelist expresses a similar term:
Is that Mr. Chopin a girl?
But in spite of that initial disagreement and the bad impressions of both of them, and of any prognosis, they began a relationship. Some comment that it was the chaste and soft character of the pianist and George's masculine impetus that gave birth to the attraction. Others have said that due to Chopin's illness, tuberculosis, the breakdown of his commitment to Maria Wodzinska, a teenager with whom he had fallen in love, and even the precarious economic situation he was living became easy prey for George, who always liked to boast about getting what he wanted.
It is said that one of their key and definitive moments is the season they spend in Mallorca. Not only the couple but also George's children travel there. What had been thought of as a journey of pleasure and recreation would soon become a tragedy and a disastrous journey. Not only were the inhabitants of the area who looked very badly on the couple because they were not married, but Chopin, due to his illness and the predominant climate of the area, worsened, so they had to leave Mallorca unexpectedly and go to Barcelona, where they had to spend a season until the pianist improved.
It must be said that George and Chopin's relationship was always marked by the pianist's illness, hence the writer's conversion from lover to nurse, almost a mother to him, who not only cared for him but gave him words of affection and understanding. It is said, for example, that the novelist called Chopin "her third child," and frequently referred to him as "boy" or "little angel". Likewise, that passion soon gave rise to friendship (in a letter from Sand to Grzimala, May 12, 1847, it reads: "I have lived as a virgin for seven years. With him and with the others").
It is said that the relationship between George Sand and Chopin breaks down when she begins to be jealous of Chopin because she believes that he is in love with her daughter; there is even talk that George begins a new relationship with another man. However, several specialists bet on thinking that the decline of the relationship had already begun, when the novelist wrote Lucrezia Floriani. With this novel, Chopin feels humiliated, as he feels that the story is inspired by his relationship. The story is about Lucrezia, a famous Italian actress who has retired to the countryside to raise her children. She meets a sweet and sensitive teenager, who falls in love with her and starts a romance. In the story Lucrezia takes care of Karol as a "sick kitten". Chopin sees in this story, his story and can not bear it.
After 10 years, the relationship between these two artists culminated. Two years after his break-up, on October 17, 1849, Frédéric Chopin, only 39 years old, died in Paris, victim of the tuberculosis that had accompanied him half his life. She, George Sand, also died in France on June 8, 1876, at the age of 71 from gastric cancer.
As you have seen, love has its own ways and unexpected endings. I hope you found this story interesting. Remember to vote for @adsactly as a witness and join our server in discord. Until the next smile.;)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand
https://listindiario.com/la-vida/2010/2/10/131135/La-interesante-historia-de-amor-de-Frederic-Chopin-y-George-Sand
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Another relationship of great interest, marked by character conflict. Unfortunately, posterity has not allowed a knowledge of the work of both that has been of similar resonance. I think that they were personalities and lives that were very much touched by the anguish of the time (let's remember that European romanticism is at its height). Chopin managed to transcend universally with his musical compositions; his "Nocturnes" and " Polonaises" will always be very attractive. The same did not happen with Sand's novelistic work. Thanks for your post, @nancybriti.
I believe that many loves have been marked by the times in which they were lived, in the societies or cultures in which they developed, and this is no exception. In Chopin's case, there are still dark areas about his sexuality, and in Sand's case, there is always talk about his manly behavior. Finally, at least companionship and care could be given for a time and serve as inspiration for the works that we have the joy today to enjoy. Thank you for always having such intelligent and accurate comments, @josemalaven.
A new publication about love and just as interesting as the previous ones you shared with us, @nancybriti. I think that the relationship between Chopin and George Sand did not arise from love but from another type of feeling, attraction or interest. You tell us that from the first encounter they only felt rejection and then they established a loving relationship because of George's impetus. I think that from the first moment the relationship began very badly and this made it stagger to end after ten years of living together sustained by commitment or by pity. When there is true love, a couple really in love is able to endure situations as tragic as an illness or any of the vicissitudes that may arise in life. Thank you for sharing these quality publications @nancybriti and @adsactly for spreading them.
According to you, @aurodivys. Certainly love can do it all. Perhaps, at the beginning what worked in this couple was attraction, seeing in the other what is missing, what is lacking. It is said that they complemented each other well: she was rude and coarse; he was fine and well-mannered. But in the end what survived was compassion, accompaniment. And love is something else. Thank you for your always pertinent comments. Hugs
A very emotional delivery that you make us in this publication, @nancybriti. Two lovers who created his immortal work changing parameters. Chopin shows his delicate, melancholic and introverted soul in his musical compositions and George Sand defies social conventions with his dominant attitude.
Thank you, @nancybriti, for showing us these stories of different paths and walkers that represent love. Thanks also to @adsactly for sharing them.
It's good to find you here, @oacevedo. You who are an excellent poet, know the great works that can inspire love. Even failed loves have served as a starting point for many artists. Because they are the ones who are able to see flowers, where there are only thorns and weeds. Thank you for your comment! Greetings
It is a great pleasure for me to follow your publications, @nancybriti, full of flavor, poetic intuition and sharpness.
You are an exquisite writer and you have a thousand and one nights of extraordinary stories to tell us with the grace and splendor that characterizes you in all the environments where you express your knowledge.
Thank you, friend, for your affection and your lyrics. I greet you.
Enlightening post.
You post about love which unity the couple who struggle their love.
the journey of living chopin and george sand is very heartbreaking. The love story of two different genres. Bring together two different characters in one bond. Chopin who is said to be feminine and Sand is masculine still has a human side. Relations between the two who even according to sand for seven years are still virgins. in this case, whether both of them only see the couple as a motivator and source of inspiration for the work, so they forget about the bonds they commit.
These two professionals were able to make their life story as a source of good inspiration for Chopin who gave birth to music works which until now are still much admired, and for Sand was able to make him produce stories that are genre of social criticism.
With this post, we know more about life and the love story of both.
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That's right, dear friend, in love people complement each other, like yin and yang. I think the two met in their loneliness and genius. Each was an inspiration to the other. In love that is good: to inspire and to admire. Thank you for always commenting, @rokhani
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I didn´t know all this story. Thanks!
The art is amazing, and its the music that affected his life and the life that affected his music too. Thanks for a interesting post.