Franz Liszt

LIFE OF CHOPIN

Translated from the French by
Martha Walker Cook



General Index

DEDICATION OF THE TRANSLATION TO JAN PYCHOWSKI

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Chopin--Style and Improvements--The Adagio of the Second Concerto--Funeral March--Psychological Character of the Compositions of Chopin, &c., &c.

CHAPTER II. National Character of the Polonaise--Oginski--Meyseder--Weber-- Chopin--His Polonaise in F Sharp, Minor--Polonaise--Fantaisie.

CHAPTER III. Chopin's Mazourkas--Polish Ladies--Mazourka in Poland--Tortured Motives--Early life of Chopin--Zal.

CHAPTER IV. Chopin's Mode of Playing--Concerts--The Elite--Fading Bouquets and Immortal Crowns--Hospitality--Heine--Meyerbeer--Adolphe Nourrit--Eugene Delacroix--Niemcevicz--Mickiewicz--George Sand.

CHAPTER V. The Lives of Artists--Pure Fame of Chopin--Reserve--Classic and Romantic Art-Language of the Sclaves--Chopin's Love of Home Memories.

CHAPTER VI. Birth and Early Life of Chopin--National Artists--Chopin embodies in himself the poetic sense of his whole nation--Opinion of Beethoven.

CHAPTER VII. Madame Sand--Lelia--Visit to Majorca--Exclusive Ideals.

CHAPTER VIII. Disappointment--Ill Health--Visit to England--Devotion of Friends--Last Sacraments--Delphina Potocka--Louise--M. Gutman-- Death.

NOTES TO THE LIFE OF CHOPIN