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Frederick Chopin

Chapter 24: PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED
By comte Guy de Pourtalès
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The biography follows Chopin from his Polish upbringing through his years in Vienna and Paris, emphasizing his inward temperament and the intimate bond he forged with the piano. It traces creative phases, friendships and misunderstandings—including his relationship with George Sand—and examines how solitude, delicate health, and aesthetic ideals shaped his compositions and public life. Drawing on musical analysis, surviving correspondence, and contemporaries’ memories while noting that some personal papers were lost, the narrative presents his oeuvre as an expression of refined imagination and private sorrow, and concludes with the decline of his strength and the persistence of his musical voice.

PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED

Franz Liszt: F. Chopin. Leipzig (Breitkopf). 1852 and 1923.

George Sand: Histoire de ma vie. 4 vol. Calmann-Lévy. Paris.

—Un hiver à Majorque. 1 vol., ibid. 1843.

—Correspondance.

Maurice Karasowski: F. Chopin. Warsaw, 1862, and new ed. Berlin, 1877 and 1925.

Comte Wodzinski: Les trois romans de F. Chopin. Calmann, Paris, 1886.

Robert Schumann: Etudes sur la musique et les musiciens. Trad. H. de Curzon. Paris, 1898.

M. Karlowicz: Souvenirs inédits de F. Chopin. Paris, and Leipzig, 1904. Trad. F. Disière.

Friedrich Niecks: F. Chopin as a Man and a Musician. London. (Novello), 1882, 2 vol.

Kleczinski: F. Chopin. De l’interpretation de ses œuvres. Paris, 1906.

Wladimir Karénine: George Sand, sa vie et ses œuvres. Plon, 1899–1926. 4 vol. (An important and remarkable work, including a quantity of unpublished documents of which I have made much use.)

Bernard Scharlitt: F. Chopin’s gesammelte Briefe. Leipzig, 1911. (Only authentic and complete text of the letters.)

Samuel Rocheblave: George Sand et sa fille. Paris, 1905.

Elie Poirée: Chopin. Paris, 1907.

Edouard Ganche: Frédéric Chopin, sa vie et ses œuvres. Paris, 10th ed. (Mercure de France), 1923.

Ferdynand Hoesick: Chopin, 3 vol. Warsaw, 1911.

I. Paderewski: A la mémoire de F. Chopin (speech). 1911.

Eugène Delacroix: Journal. Plon, Paris. 3 vol., new ed., 1926.

Opienski: Chopin. Lwow, 1910 (Altenberg).

Henri Bidou: Chopin. (Libr. Alcan). Paris, 1926.

Aurore Sand: Journal Intime de George Sand. Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1926.