http://www.chopinproject.com/2009/12/25/the-chopin-currency-%e2%80%93-dec-25-2009/ The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin - from the Studio of Arthur Greene Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:28:54 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.chopinproject.com/2009/12/25/the-chopin-currency-%e2%80%93-dec-25-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-23583 Theresa Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:53:44 +0000 http://www.chopinproject.com/?p=709#comment-23583 I find the first article to be a little bit unbalanced. True, Chopin was a difficult character to get along with for many people - in fact, I really dislike it when biographers try to pretend otherwise - but it makes little sense to paint Franz Liszt and George Sand, for example, as victims when each had their own highly undesirable personality traits. The author also states that Chopin supported Solange's marriage to Clésinger while George Sand opposed it, and while that might have seemed true later on, it was quite the opposite in the beginning. Chopin disliked and distrusted Clésinger while Sand supported and even arranged the marriage. Things didn't change until Clésinger had an altercation with Maurice Sand, though I gather things were souring some time before then. I find the first article to be a little bit unbalanced. True, Chopin was a difficult character to get along with for many people – in fact, I really dislike it when biographers try to pretend otherwise – but it makes little sense to paint Franz Liszt and George Sand, for example, as victims when each had their own highly undesirable personality traits. The author also states that Chopin supported Solange’s marriage to Clésinger while George Sand opposed it, and while that might have seemed true later on, it was quite the opposite in the beginning. Chopin disliked and distrusted Clésinger while Sand supported and even arranged the marriage. Things didn’t change until Clésinger had an altercation with Maurice Sand, though I gather things were souring some time before then.

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