Chopin. Adam Zamoyski

       Chopin

       Prince of the Romantics

      Adam Zamoyski

      

      

Copyright

      William Collins

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      Published by HarperPress in 2010

      

      Copyright © Adam Zamoyski 2010

      

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       To Emma

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

Illustrations

Preface

One A Prodigy Restrained

       Two School Days

Three Musical Genius

Four Adolescent Passions

Five Vienna

Six Romantic Paris

       Seven Pianist à la Mode

       Eight Second Love

       Nine Art and Politics

       Ten Love Above All

       Eleven Conjugal Life

       Twelve The Church of Chopin

       Thirteen The End of the Affair

       Fourteen An Ugly Fracas

       Fifteen London and Scotland

       Sixteen The Jealousy of Heaven

       Appendix A

       Appendix B

       Notes

       Sources

       Index

       Other Books By

       About the Publisher

       ILLUSTRATIONS

      Justyna Chopin.

      Nicolas Chopin.

      The house at Żelazowa Wola in which Chopin was born.

      Ludwika Chopin.

      Izabela Chopin.

      Emilia Chopin.

      The Warsaw Lycée.

      The Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.

      Wojciech Żywny.

      The drawing room of the Chopin apartment.

      Józef Elsner.

      Tytus Woyciechowski.

      Chopin drawn by Eliza Radziwiłł, 1826.

      Chopin at the age of twenty, by Ambroży Mieroszewski.

      Konstancja Gładkowska.

      Jan Matuszyński.

      Chopin, portrait by an unknown artist, early 1830s.

      Hector Berlioz.

      Franz Liszt.

      Felix Mendelssohn.

      Hiller and Chopin, a contemporary medal.

      Vincenzo Bellini.

      Chopin in the mid-1830s.

      Delfina Potocka.

      Chopin’s apartment on the rue de la Chaussée d’Antin.

      Astolphe