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100	1		_aPourtalès, Guy de, comte, _d1881-1941
240	1	0	_aChopin, ou, Le poète. English
245	1	0	_aFrederick Chopin
246	1		_aChopin : A man of solitude
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aAmerican edition (H. Holt and company, New York) has title: Polonaise; the life of Chopin.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-21
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520			_a"Frederick Chopin: A Man of Solitude" by comte Guy de Pourtalès is a biographical study written in the early 20th century. It offers an intimate, poetic portrait of Chopin as a Polish exile and Romantic artist, exploring how national identity, frailty, and inwardness shaped his music and life. Expect a focus on his early formation, Parisian ascent, key relationships, and the aesthetic of refined melancholy that defines his art. The opening of this biography sets Chopin against the luminous foil of Liszt and the fate of Poland, then follows him from a protected Warsaw childhood through precocious studies with Zywny and Elsner, first publications, and early acclaim. It traces his awakening sensibility—captured in the untranslatable Polish zal—his youthful love for the singer Constance Gladkowska, and his conflicted departure from Warsaw on the eve of revolution. In Vienna he endures isolation and anguish for his embattled homeland, composes the concertos and early Nocturnes and Etudes, and, after the fall of Warsaw, channels grief into the “Revolutionary” Etude. Arriving in Paris, he resists Kalkbrenner’s tutelage, earns critical admiration but scant income, then gains patrons, students, and a salon reputation for exquisite improvisations, while publishing mazurkas, nocturnes, and waltzes and befriending Liszt, Berlioz, Hiller, and Franchomme. The section closes with his first notable Paris loves and friendships (including Delphine Potoçka), a joyful reunion with his parents, and a tender Dresden interlude with Marie Wodzinska—immortalized in the “Waltz of the Farewell”—before brief encounters with Mendelssohn, Clara Wieck, and Schumann on his way back. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927
653			_aChopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849
653			_aComposers -- Poland -- Biography
700	1		_aBayly, Charles, Jr., _d1897-1954
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/frederickchopinm0000guyd/page/n13/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76904
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