Show L 1 Jh r l TJ ca i C t ie y o I q r r rt Recalls LoYe r rJ f W r i l I gr f t m P t 1 4 t t i s Sa t I F r N p iw S r J m n 1 r 2 t f r t r F y J Irk 1 m x l 1 f y 2 I r PS r 7 I 1 i i I i d i 4 n nm fi 1 r t tI tl l 44 l S r r I 1 N i t a v 1 1 L I I r f S lii r i g ro e s sti n Na sr k kC I o a d 1 r d 4 tip i y r yi Iq u q T of 1 O IZ I ti C v f o 21 y B J I p I q JI Bi I L it rt k 1 71 fot Jf I Ie r r J I Jt V t r v vV rF r Tt J rr rrt I I ft rJ 1 f j iJ T c r 1 J t i h f t N g Ij k J li li 3 T j r S as 4 4 r f Ir rt J J r L 1 1 K o jI J s sr J 1 F E J t HI 1 7 J n j r F Fc r c L lt sk 1 tr nl oj r to L f l P 4 t iF 1 If l lc I J i W rt i c ri rk fI c j A 7 t l 4 p IF 21 a l cia rI t o t g 1 k k J h it j i fl f I oF I 1 I rt nf o I I I t i 7 ro 7 r p 1 I t h 11 rr J d tl rd I r rJ f l cL J tJ tJI L i L u I t t tr I 1 L 1 r J if i rl I yu o I a q C tW t ys o rF C la n I 2 from 1 QT I 1 S EV the Russian novelist C coined the malicious epigram mis luls misquoted misquoted quoted by br Huneker that there thero are arc n a thousand ladies In Europe In whose arms Chopin yielded up his spirit makes It half u a lien hun hundred dred tIr countesses which of ot course leaves leaven leo open limo tho possibility of ot the tho other bar hav M lug lag tome ome other rank This Tills epigram nod and the famous lure lovo affair with Uh George Geln Snail Saud here have put an nn of ot Impropriety abut life lite ns nl If Ie he lm had holl been tome IDe polygamous pasha of oC music whose Who biographer hail had need led to be n now new Lope rello cello to catalogue catalo o his hili t I In 10 reality II ty Frederic Francois Chopin tern born years rear ago ego this m bt of ot March Ras a 0 somewhat domesticated genius of oC oCth th highly susceptible sort fort lie He fell Cell In IOTO lore as ns readily as n duck takes to wa wn water ter tr and nod he Ill fell teU out of oC love lore with the tho flame fearful facility Here Is n story told by Georgo Sand who had hot It from himself lie He bad had taken a n great t fancy to the theof of n a celebrated muster Ile He tU lit ur im shi er lU In n e eat eat at the tho th same owe time limo that he lie entertained the Idea of uC another r marriage In Poland his loyalty lo being engaged nowhere and his tickle fickle heart floating from one passion to the other The Tbt young Parisian Parl lan received r him very or kindly and un all scent as 08 well w ns na could he be till on going to visit bit her one oat Oll day lu company CO with another mu ruu musician whim was wn of ot more note In Purls than he ho nt at that time she offered u n to this gentleman before lie Core thinking ot of Inviting Chopin to bo ho seated Hn Ito never called on her bur again nod ol olber gher ber Immediately Such was wa the time and sensitive sensitive I tive tIo heart henrt of oC time the Poet of oC the Plano Piano No o passion left lort any on abiding marks mark there Yet there arc are three or four love lore stories connected d with his hla short life II C CHili Ills Ill first rat love lore was Glad Gladkowska a II pupil of the Warsaw con COli conservatory whom he worshiped for Cor six months mouths without ns n much an nil exchanging n syllable with her She Is le symbolized In the stately adagio of ot the tbt concerto she was time thu Inspiration of ot one I dl 11 I Sig by r iri alb i ry Ii e s i A W 1 T Tit I L Lr r I j 1 t i 1 c it l Id 1 ko J 1 r j N tl L lipf Id kF ji e i 5 y t YF 1 q i t ij f 4 iJ 1 t i I c x It I I I If c t P f lri j YA rt ib 1 iI I f i bala J 1 I r t lit m rr r J h r 4 c cr i r 5 lan A r yf p or S I k J I t i by S1 I Ix x r I il 1 Jt ae a af r i IE we Z Lr e Io rz de d P 1 of ot his bill earliest raises wn wain n singer and her bur low lo B D alone was worth a n thousand ducats But Dut Chopin was WIS only 21 a penniless 11 composer giving omo some concerts In Jim Warsaw nail nud It Is Ii not known whether ho lie ever eler laid his 1116 heart at the tile ladys ledye feet Ceet At t any rote rate she mur mar 11 l I a n Warsaw who became blind and she libe passes passe from cor correspondence correspondence and life liCe aw as completely ns us n a meteorite that has fats fallen Four years later he be Is punning planning to marry Maria who was Just 10 19 years rears of ot age Ol They played together at nt the piano they took long walks Then he ho left lett for France Maria Marla gave him a 0 rose rosc null amid he hp sent her a n waltz from Paris which she called Sho lIo was married somo fomo years ear Inter nil un happily secured n a divorce and ried again became become a widow and died only a 11 few tow years ago ngo The lime Affair With George SanI Of Ot course the grand passion of oC life was George e Snail Sand She was 1111 onn or ortho tho limo striking figures In a n Parts Part tilled fillet with striking figures There was WAil Victor lingo Hugo thu lIw pope of romanticism and ond there was Alexander Dames Its Chevalier Bayard There were and nail and Do De Mussel virtuosos of ot tears carol There was l a new John this tho Baptist there was wail Wine Holne anew a new Demoe there them was time the French Poe 10 mud and Meyerbeer and Berlioz were making music mu lc Ary My r and Delacroix wore were painting and were writing history In this throng of ot be he mot met the tI woman with tho limo somber eyes e iJ Lucile Loelle had imad boon been married to toM M Jl 1 when ben Chopin was a 11 boy ot of 13 she had bad left lett her husband nOd and unu to Italy with the poet De DC she bail with thu doctor who visited Do De Mussel UI abed AIt d Sho She had a wonder wonderful ful tul dexterity lu transferring her Ilor affee acree 10 r almost as os wonderful n OR as her prodigious glees Industry lu In turning out novels Such was wail Madame better Jelter known by br her pen name of ot George Sand who presently fixed l her affection upon Chopin and ond literally annexed him Several romantic stories starlet have been hren told of ot their first meeting The facts appear to he be that she Rile mired asked Liszt to Introduce her ber to the tho Polish pianist who nho was creat treat creating treating ing n a furore In Paris and then thon she did the rest Chopin was not attracted by hy her hor at nt first rather rn ther the time reverse The Tho com tern composer poser Hiller filler In a n letter to Liszt JJ zt soya that Chopin found COlin her repellent nt at first and did not to say nay so Hut But Is 10 s she I h really a n 1 I 1 am Inclined to doubt It Still wo hove have word for tor It that she Kho was waH beautiful Yen lies C she Is as nR beau benim beautiful as tho the Venus do des llo sho nho even surpasses sur surpasses passes the latter In many man respects she be lu 18 s for tor Instance very ery much younger But nul she he was wo masculine In spirit her fondness for mimic male garments was waa but nn an outward manifestation of ot that masculinity Chop ChopIn ClIo In was urns ns Just as all essentially feminine with bin hla eyes eres of ot tender brown and his chest chestnut nut blonde hair his bis finical elegance of ot toilet and his shrinking soul BOul The Tho Woman Domineered Sho She took him to Majorca In 10 1538 as ns Fuming suming tho the maternal pose of as aswell aswell aswell well aa as 8 sweetheart Although h he be was not yet a n victim of ot consumption his health was woo precarious pr She ban described him himas as nR a detestable patient nUll nail later Inter on she eho called d him her dear corpse a n gro grotesque tesque pleasantry One reminiscent writer tulla tello t the story of ot how she Hh would order Chopin around Frederic Un she called when whon sho she wished a cigar lighter and Fred Frederic Fr Frederic l eric erle obediently brought t one The story has been doubted however because George Georg Sand never neer smoked cigars but cigarettes There Tiler IB Is no doubt however that she Aile was the stronger vessel The delicate artist who became BO so to weak In the last years yearn of oC his Ill life lito that lila his playing wits was hardly hn I audible and ond he had bud to modify fortes tortes Into pianissimo passed whole eve ec Ings In 8 of ot his more robust years In playing blind mans huff buff with young oun girls and In telling them stories A beautiful story Is l told which bodies forth the tender pathos of ot his hili compositions ions an ni no DO descriptive chapters could though penned In the t o grandiloquent fugue stylo style of oC a 0 Huncker r Meyerbeer had bad had n 0 quarrel his bill wife and they thoy parted lu ins anger He lIe sat Hat down at nt tho limo piano pin no and played a nocturne Chopin had bad sent him Such was the charm of or the time melody that hit his wife came up and nud kissed him which promptly wrote to Chopin Even E n own playing could not permanently unchain tho the volatile George Saud She grew tired of ot him at nt last Dud after 10 years they parted He Ito was not to live lIte for tor long Ion Ho Ito fainted nt at his last concert In Paris Purl a n year later There Thero be he met her ber once onee again She took his bIB band hand trembling and ond cold coM but he be went 1 off without uttering n a word Toward the tho close cl ge of ot 18 15 0 D he died The fanciful stories storie of ot his deathbed ore are I much adorned with legend lelen He breathed i his bis last at tho home of Gutmann n a pupil j i whose hand be held as ns he be murmured 1 elmer cher ami om Solange Sand was there but not her ber mother the novelist One legend le nd says oya she was nil refused admittance The Tho I scene cene depicted depleted by tho painter with Delphino singing Stradella and Mozart took place mho tho day before betoN death so much of It as ns took look place at ot nil all Ills niM n IN an rut Tone Tono Poet Chopin whoso whose ho C centenary the world Is 15 celebrating wan In many ways unique among amon composers compo ers The piano was his bis kingdom Opera and symphony be never ne r touched Ho Is 18 even a n specialist of ot the Plano piano The somber the poetic the ten lea leader r der Iler tho the dreamy It Is In these that ho the U it Utho L mho tho supreme master His Ilia music seems The twinkling sweet H of ot elfin cIOn feet f Ct Upon the wealth of oC summers Bummers flowers has bOB called him shim the tho Alfred dc do of or music Do Mussel vax InN the tim theother I Iother other famous lover lorer of ot George Sand IB is I something lo is the doctrine of oC elc after otter nil Ills polonaises are arc full tull of oC patriotic pas passion lion sion mind and splendor his fantasies are mo males ot of sumptuous sound that lu fu i j Ii mi rul minor nor opus onus 10 to Is III probably master masterpiece piece picco And Ant as os Dickinson In his ilia work on thu History ot of Music says sas Like UI c the fugues of ot Bach the symphonies of ot Beet neet 1 heron the time songs son of or Schubert and amid the tho music dramas of ot Wagner Waner piano pieces touch torch the tho high water mark In their 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