Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin played before the reigning Russian
Grand Duke at the age of eight. He emigrated to Vienna at the age
of 18 just before Warsaw's patriotic uprising was crushed by the
tsar's armies, but the influence of his early years would surface
later in his famous polonaises and mazurkas. Chopin spent the years
1831 to 1849 in Paris, where his extraordinary powers would come to
fruition and where he shone among the immensely talented artists
who were working there and defining their era - Hugo, Balzac,
Stendhal, Delacroix, Liszt, Berlioz. His associates ranged from
Rothschild to Marx, and it was here that he began his long and
stormy relationship with the novelist George Sand. He succumbed to
the tuberculosis that had plagued him from childhood and died in
1849, at the age of 39. This book presents his complex,
contradictory genius.
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