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That was the occasion of Frederic Chopin's first concert. Three years later in Paris, a figure of fashion with white gloves to emphasize his pointed hands, he rode through the Bois de Boulogne in a cabriolet. To late suppers in his rooms, each lady would bring a flower, at the most perfect of which, Chopin, frozen into a temperamental abstraction, would sit for a long time staring...
...house in Valdemosa he lived with George Sand. She wrote: "It is poetry, it is solitude, it is everything that is most enchanting under the sky; and what sky! what country! We are in a dream of happiness." Chopin wrote: "The three most celebrated doctors of the island came together for a consultation. One sniffed . . . another tapped . . . the third listened while I expectorated. They treated me like an animal, and the first said I would die, the second said I was about to die, the third said I was already dead. But I go on living as I have always...
...room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me, I conjure you to have my body opened so I may not be buried alive...
...debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were...
...program is as follows: Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue Bach Sonata in A-flat major, op. 26 Beethoven Andante con Variazione Scherzo March Fannebre sulla Morte d'un Eroe Rondo. After an intermission he will play: Two Etudes, Op. 25 Chopin No. 7, C sharp minor No. 9, G flat major La Solree dans Grenade Debussey Ravel Valee Nobles et Sentimentales Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7. Flirtation in a Chinese Garden Abram Chasins Caprice Espagnol Mosskowski