Chopin’s Chérie: Blossoming of Polish Pianistic Sentiments
Born of a French father and Polish mother, the music of Frédéric Chopin represents a beautiful symbiosis of both cultures, synthesizing French texture, form and harmony with Polish dance and rhythmic flair. Chopin’s amorous, decade-long relationship with novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, who wrote under the pen name George Sand, was a primary influence in his life and art. Chopin’s solo piano music formed a bond between the two lovers that, once severed, seemed to precipitate the composer’s demise: after all, Chopin’s cello sonata, the last work of his published during his lifetime, was composed near the end of the tumultuous relationship. Cellist Joseph Gotoff and pianist Christopher Schmitt will perform this work, alongside an anthology of Chopin’s solo piano pieces, befitting the salon style concerts the composer was so fond of.
Born of a French father and Polish mother, the music of Frédéric Chopin represents a beautiful symbiosis of both cultures, synthesizing French texture, form and harmony with Polish dance and rhythmic flair. Chopin’s amorous, decade-long relationship with novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, who wrote under the pen name George Sand, was a primary influence in his life and art. Chopin’s solo piano music formed a bond between the two lovers that, once severed, seemed to precipitate the composer’s demise: after all, Chopin’s cello sonata, the last work of his published during his lifetime, was composed near the end of the tumultuous relationship. Cellist Joseph Gotoff and pianist Christopher Schmitt will perform this work, alongside an anthology of Chopin’s solo piano pieces, befitting the salon style concerts the composer was so fond of.
Born of a French father and Polish mother, the music of Frédéric Chopin represents a beautiful symbiosis of both cultures, synthesizing French texture, form and harmony with Polish dance and rhythmic flair. Chopin’s amorous, decade-long relationship with novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, who wrote under the pen name George Sand, was a primary influence in his life and art. Chopin’s solo piano music formed a bond between the two lovers that, once severed, seemed to precipitate the composer’s demise: after all, Chopin’s cello sonata, the last work of his published during his lifetime, was composed near the end of the tumultuous relationship. Cellist Joseph Gotoff and pianist Christopher Schmitt will perform this work, alongside an anthology of Chopin’s solo piano pieces, befitting the salon style concerts the composer was so fond of.