![]() ![]() He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations. He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds. Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it. In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand related how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma in a terrible rainstorm, found a distraught Chopin who exclaimed, " Ah! I knew well that you were dead." While playing his piano he had a dream: Some, though not all, of Opus 28 was written during Chopin and George Sand's stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838. The prelude is noted for its repeating A-flat, which appears throughout the piece and sounds like raindrops to many listeners. 15, by Frédéric Chopin, known as the "Raindrop" prelude, is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. I finished them on your little piano, which arrived in the best possible condition in spite of the sea, the bad weather and the Palma customs." A description of the experience Chopin wrote to Pleyel in January 1839: " I am sending you my Preludes. It finally arrived from Paris in December. He also had problems having his Pleyel piano sent to him. The first said I was dead the second said I was dying and the third said I was about to die." On 3 December, Chopin complained about his bad health and the incompetence of the doctors in Majorca: " Three doctors have visited me . This compelled the group to take lodgings in a former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa, which gave little shelter from the cold winter weather. After discovering that the couple were not married, the deeply traditional Catholic people of Majorca became inhospitable, making accommodation difficult to find. The two spent a miserable winter on Majorca (8 November 1838 to 13 February 1839), where, together with Sand's two children, they had journeyed in the hope of improving the health of Chopin and that of Sand's 15-year-old son Maurice, and also to escape the threats of Sand's former lover Félicien Mallefille. I have still not recovered from my astonishment, and if I were a proud person I should be feeling humiliated at having been carried away ." "I must say I was confused and amazed at the effect this little creature had on me . ![]() Sand, who was six years older than the composer, and who had had a series of lovers, wrote at this time: On his return to Paris, his association with Sand began in earnest, and by the end of June 1838 they had become lovers. In June 1837 Chopin visited London where he played at a musical soirée. ![]() Sand, in contrast, in a letter to Grzymała of June 1838, admitted strong feelings for the composer and debated whether to abandon a current affair in order to begin a relationship with Chopin she asked Grzymała to assess Chopin's relationship with Maria Wodzińska, without realising that the affair, at least from Maria's side, was over. Short (under five feet, or 152 cm), dark, big-eyed and a cigar smoker, she initially repelled Chopin, who remarked, " What an unattractive person la Sand is. In 1836, at a party hosted by Marie d'Agoult, Chopin met the French author George Sand (born Aurore Dupin). ![]()
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