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...Solid Ground." The object of such honors, perhaps more concentrated than any other composer living or dead has ever received on a single occasion, was a man of whom one Parisian wrote: "Chopin can best be denned as a trinite charmante. His personality, his playing and his compositions were in such harmony that they could no more be separated than can the features of one face...
...could not tolerate pianists who took liberties with what he wrote. Once, after Sigismond Thalberg had embroidered one of his nocturnes, Chopin congratulated him, then asked coldly, "Whose composition was this...
...young Robert Schumann, who was busily praising him from afar ("Hats off, gentlemen, a genius"), Chopin said, "I am constantly afraid that ... he will write something that will make me ridiculous forever." He complained, "Why did I not live when Bach and Mozart were living? I would burn all my trash if they considered it unworthy...
...long suffered from tuberculous hemorrhages. One day in 1849 ne was visited by a former schoolmate, a priest, who found his face "cold as alabaster . . . Bubbling with wit and exceedingly kind, he seemed to belong only in slight degree to earth. But, alas, he was not thinking of heaven." Chopin told his friend, "I should not like to die without having received the sacrament, because I don't want to bring grief to my mother. But I cannot take it, because I don't understand it in your...
Five months later, nonetheless, after more hemorrhages, Frederic Chopin quietly took the sacraments, said his prayers, and died. His last requests were that the Mozart Requiem be played at his funeral and that his heart be taken to Warsaw...