Frederick Chopin
- Subtitle
- A man of solitude
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1. Front matter2. DEDICATION3. CHAPTER I “An angel, fair of face as a tall, sad woman”4. CHAPTER II The Childhood of Chopin5. CHAPTER III The Birth of the Poet6. CHAPTER IV “Sorrow” and “Ideal”7. CHAPTER V Revolution at Warsaw and Solitude at Vienna8. CHAPTER VI “I doubt whether there is a city on Earth where more pianists are to be found than in Paris”9. CHAPTER VII Happy Years, Working Years10. CHAPTER VIII Marie Wodzinska and the Dusk11. CHAPTER IX First Sketch of George Sand12. CHAPTER X Letters of Two Novelists13. CHAPTER XI The Chartreuse of Valdemosa14. CHAPTER XII “If music be the food of love, play on”15. CHAPTER XIII On some Friendships of Chopin, and on his Æsthetics16. CHAPTER XIV Misunderstandings, Loneliness17. CHAPTER XV Chagrin, Hate18. CHAPTER XVI The Story of an Estrangement19. CHAPTER XVII Swan Song20. CHAPTER XVIII “The Cypresses have their caprices”21. CHAPTER XIX The Death of Chopin22. CHAPTER XX An Epitaph for a Poet23. SOURCES24. PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED25. INDEX