Another great Romantic sufferer, very much in line with the the Weltschmerz of his day, was Chopin, or Frederick Copin, known for his exalted and ultra sad pieces, especially written for, or around the piano. He was a solitary soul, got mixed up with a woman named George Sand, with whom he had a complex relationship.
She took him for a carriage ride in Paris, with knowledge of his proclivity for illness. He got a bad cold, and died of pneumonia. Was it maybe some kind of a hidden destructive competitive envy that
possessed her, a pre ordinal envy of artist-men, for her to pen her name?
Was it? A pre ordinal attempt on her part, as a
woman in a pro forms stance, to be acceptable as a woman artist? Course this was trendish at the time.
He got pneumonia poor man and died at the tender age of 39.
This type of destructive relationship could also be seen
in more recent relationships , as with the Paul Bowles and his grotesque life, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, all tremendously effected by the sorry duplicity fraught with the ambigious nature that sexual roles could effect on vocational ones.
But their art: Literaly to die for, and they did as such.
I always knew she was a girl, can be said of Chopin himself, and George Sand her husband.
But how in the heck could he not know, for surely
such entry unannounced was beyond the scope of her understanding. Remember, she lived in the 19th century, when these things were not discussed, nor understood.
Honestly, that is how I feel right now. Much of my music sux, some of it doesn’t. But it all feels like an experiment, to find the ultimate music that noone can concieve of.
I think Early Genesis is a WAY underrated classical works, I believe it is an Evolution of classical music and not given the praise that it deserves. It is nothing but pure genius.
However, long after Beethoven went deaf, Czerny, one of Beethoven’s students, brought Liszt in when Liszt was 12…
I won’t tell the whole story, but Beethoven was notorious for hating prodigies, and he made an extremely symbolic gesture by kissing Liszt on the forehead.
K: I am hearing impaired which means if you have 100% hearing in your
right ear and 100% in your left ear which makes up 200% combined hearing,
I have about 60% combined hearing in both ears, so I have less than half
the hearing you do and I can’t hear high pitch noises like violins and flutes
without my hearing aid. I listen to a whole lot of music, right now I am listening
to George Winston… plays piano…
K: I too saw him live and my favorite CD is Autumn. I have
listened to that CD about a thousand times.
I have every CD he has put out… I like all of them including
Montana…