Chopin and george sands biography channel
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Chopin and George Sand: passion, creativity, heartbreak
The relationship between the composer Frédéric Chopin and the writer George Sand has always provoked curiosity. When Sand first met Chopin, in 1836, her novels were attracting notoriety for their advanced social ideas, particularly on the emancipation of women. She wore men’s clothing and smoked cigars – outward symbols of equality.
Some biographers have seen George Sand as a wholly negativ influence on Chopin. But she gave him exactly the right domestic environment in which to compose and she cared for him at a time when his terminal illness had already begun to eat away his lungs.
When Sand planned their madcap adventure to Mallorca in the winter of 1838-39, she thought only to escape the rigours of the Paris climate and expose Chopin to some warm Mediterranean sunshine. She knew very little about the island, its inhabitants, its climate, but its mystery was all part of its appeal.
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George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
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Portrait by Nadar (1864) | |
| Born | Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-07-01)1 July 1804 Paris, France |
| Died | 8 June 1876(1876-06-08) (aged 71) Nohant-Vic, Berry, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Movement | Pastoralism |
| Spouse | Casimir Dudevant (m. 1822; sep. 1835) |
| Children | Maurice Sand Solange Dudevant |
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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil[1] (French:[amɑ̃tinlysiloʁɔʁdypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen nameGeorge Sand (French:[ʒɔʁʒ(ə)sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist.[2][3] Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s,[4] Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers o
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It’s one of the most romanticized love affairs in music history: dashing cross-dressing woman novelist George Sand becomes obsessed with, and then seduces, the sickly consumptive pianist-composer Frédéric Chopin.
But how much of this story is real, and how much of it is just mythologizing?
Today we are looking at the real story behind the love affair between George Sand and Frédéric Chopin.
George Sand’s Childhood and Marriage
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris.
As a girl, she lived with her grandmother at the family manor house in Nohant, roughly three hundred kilometers from Paris.
In 1821, her grandmother died, and Aurore inherited the manor. The house at Nohant became a home base for her throughout her life.
In 1822, at the age of eighteen, Dupin married a man named Casimir Dudevant, whose biggest accomplishment in life ended up being George Sand’s ex.
They had two children together: a son named Maurice in 1823 and a