Lives & Memoirs
Frederick Chopin
comte Guy de Pourtalès · narrated by Moss
2026
7h 48m
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Guy de Pourtales paints an intimate life of Frederic Chopin, the poet of the piano, tracing his fragile health, his exile from Poland and his romance with George Sand. He renders the composer's brief, brilliant flame. A lyrical biography of a Romantic genius.
Inside this audiobook
22 chapters
- 1DEDICATION7m
- 2CHAPTER I “An angel, fair of face as a tall, sad woman”6m
- 3CHAPTER II The Childhood of Chopin9m
- 4CHAPTER III The Birth of the Poet9m
- 5CHAPTER IV “Sorrow” and “Ideal”24m
- 6CHAPTER V Revolution at Warsaw and Solitude at Vienna22m
- 7CHAPTER VI “I doubt whether there is a city on Earth where more pianists are to be found than in Paris”23m
- 8CHAPTER VII Happy Years, Working Years16m
- 9CHAPTER VIII Marie Wodzinska and the Dusk33m
- 10CHAPTER IX First Sketch of George Sand17m
- 11CHAPTER X Letters of Two Novelists45m
- 12CHAPTER XI The Chartreuse of Valdemosa32m
- 13CHAPTER XII “If music be the food of love, play on”27m
- 14CHAPTER XIII On some Friendships of Chopin, and on his Æsthetics35m
- 15CHAPTER XIV Misunderstandings, Loneliness28m
- 16CHAPTER XV Chagrin, Hate24m
- 17CHAPTER XVI The Story of an Estrangement43m
- 18CHAPTER XVII Swan Song37m
- 19CHAPTER XVIII “The Cypresses have their caprices”6m
- 20CHAPTER XIX The Death of Chopin9m
- 21CHAPTER XX An Epitaph for a Poet9m
- 22SOURCES8m
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