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Passage: Although it is not known exactly when Chopin first met Liszt after arriving in Paris, on 12 December 1831 he mentioned in a letter to his friend Woyciechowski that "I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc." Liszt was in attendance at Chopin's Parisian debut on 26 February 1832 at the Salle Pleyel, which led him to remark: "The most vigorous applause seemed not to suffice to our enthusiasm in the presence of this talented musician, who revealed a new phase of poetic sentiment combined with such happy innovation in the form of his art."

Question: Who was the recipient of Frédéric's letter he wrote on 12 December 1831?

Question: What are the three names stated in Frédéric's letter that he had shown interest and curiosity in?

Question: Who is stated as being in attendance of Frédéric's first performance at the Salle Pleyel on 26 February 1832?

Question: What was the date that LIszt first saw Chopin perform?

Question: Which friend received the letter in which Chopin referenced Liszt?

Question: Where was Chopin's first concert in Paris held?
Passage: The two became friends, and for many years lived in close proximity in Paris, Chopin at 38 Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, and Liszt at the Hôtel de France on the Rue Lafitte, a few blocks away. They performed together on seven occasions between 1833 and 1841. The first, on 2 April 1833, was at a benefit concert organized by Hector Berlioz for his bankrupt Shakespearean actress wife Harriet Smithson, during which they played George Onslow's Sonata in F minor for piano duet. Later joint appearances included a benefit concert for the Benevolent Association of Polish Ladies in Paris. Their last appearance together in public was for a charity concert conducted for the Beethoven Memorial in Bonn, held at the Salle Pleyel and the Paris Conservatory on 25 and 26 April 1841.

Question: What address did Frédéric live at during his stay in Paris?

Question: How far down the road did Liszt live from Frédéric during this time?

Question: How many times did Frédéric and Liszt collaborate in performances during the years of 1833 to 1841?

Question: For whose benefit was the first of these concerts performed for on 2 April 1833?

Question: At which two establishments was the last of these performances conducted at on 25 and 26 April 1841?

Question: When was the first time Liszt and Chopin performed together?

Question: What was the charity that Liszt and Chopin last performed for?

Question: Where did Liszt and Chopin last perform together?

Question: When Liszt lived close to Chopin, where did he call home?

Question: How many times did Chopin and Liszy perform together in public?

Question: Who did the first concert of Chopin and Liszt benefit?
Passage: Although the two displayed great respect and admiration for each other, their friendship was uneasy and had some qualities of a love-hate relationship. Harold C. Schonberg believes that Chopin displayed a "tinge of jealousy and spite" towards Liszt's virtuosity on the piano, and others have also argued that he had become enchanted with Liszt's theatricality, showmanship and success. Liszt was the dedicatee of Chopin's Op. 10 Études, and his performance of them prompted the composer to write to Hiller, "I should like to rob him of the way he plays my studies." However, Chopin expressed annoyance in 1843 when Liszt performed one of his nocturnes with the addition of numerous intricate embellishments, at which Chopin remarked that he should play the music as written or not play it at all, forcing an apology. Most biographers of Chopin state that after this the two had little to do with each other, although in his letters dated as late as 1848 he still referred to him as "my friend Liszt". Some commentators point to events in the two men's romantic lives which led to a rift between them; there are claims that Liszt had displayed jealousy of his mistress Marie d'Agoult's obsession with Chopin, while others believe that Chopin had become concerned about Liszt's growing relationship with George Sand.

Question: What term describes the qualities of the relationship between Frédéric and Liszt?

Question: What three qualities of Liszt are stated to have captivated Frédéric?

Question: What did Frédéric receive from Liszt when the latter performed a nocturne with certain embellishments added?

Question: What did Frédéric introduce Liszt as in when referring to him in his letters up to 1848?

Question: What piece did Chopin dedicate to Liszt?

Question: What was the name of Liszt's mistress?

Question: Who did Chopin dedicate the Op. 10 Études to?

Question: Who apologized to Chopin for adding embellishments to a musical piece he perforemed that was written by Chopin?

Question: What was the name of Liszt's mistress?

Question: Who did Chopin write to displaying his desire to take away a performers ability to play his music?

Question: What was the name of the man who biogrpahers think Chopin was concerned about Liszt's growing relationship with?
Passage: In 1836, at a party hosted by Marie d'Agoult, Chopin met the French author George Sand (born [Amantine] Aurore [Lucile] Dupin). 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. Is she really a woman?" However, by early 1837 Maria Wodzińska's mother had made it clear to Chopin in correspondence that a marriage with her daughter was unlikely to proceed. It is thought that she was influenced by his poor health and possibly also by rumours about his associations with women such as d'Agoult and Sand. Chopin finally placed the letters from Maria and her mother in a package on which he wrote, in Polish, "My tragedy". Sand, 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.

Question: Who was the host of the gathering where Frédéric was introduced to George Sand?

Question: What did Frédéric label the place in which he placed Maria and her mother's letters about the unlikely marriage?

Question: Who did George Sand write to when admitting having a strong affection for Frédéric?

Question: What is the name of the author Chopin met at a gathering put on by Marie d'Agoult?

Question: What was a possible reason for Chopin's failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska?

Question: What did Chopin write on the box of letters from Maria and her mother?

Question: Who hosted the party whre Chopin met George Sand?

Question: What year did Maria Wodzińska's mother tell Chopin that he likely would not marry her daughter?

Question: What did Chopin write on the package that contained letters from Maria and her mother?

Question: Who did Sand confide to in a letter about her feelings for Chopin in June, 1838?
Passage: In June 1837 Chopin visited London incognito in the company of the piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel where he played at a musical soirée at the house of English piano maker James Broadwood. On his return to Paris, his association with Sand began in earnest, and by the end of June 1838 they had become lovers. Sand, who was six years older than the composer, and who had had a series of lovers, wrote at this time: "I must say I was confused and amazed at the effect this little creature had on me ... 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 ..." 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. After discovering that the couple were not married, the deeply traditional Catholic people of Majorca became inhospitable, making accommodation difficult to find. This compelled the group to take lodgings in a former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa, which gave little shelter from the cold winter weather.

Question: What city did Frédéric visit in June 1837?

Question: What event occurred on Frédéric's return to Paris?

Question: How many years older was George Sand compared to Frédéric?

Question: What adjective is used to describe Frédéric and Sand's time together during the winter of 1838?

Question: Where did Frédéric and Sand venture to after Majorca became unlivable when it was discovered they were not married?

Question: With whom did Chopin go to London with in 1837?

Question: What was James Broadwood's occupation?

Question: How much older was George Sands than Chopin?

Question: During Sands and Chopin's visit to Majorca who were they fleeing?

Question: After it became known that Sands and Chopin were unmarried where did they end up taking up shelter?

Question: When did Chopin and Sand become lovers?

Question: Where did Chopin and Sand go between November 1838 and February 1839?

Question: Who joined Chopin and Sand on their trip to Majorca?

Question: One of the reasons Chopin and Sand went to Majorca was to escape the threats of who?

Question: Where did Chopin and Sand stay in Valldemossa?
Passage: On 3 December, Chopin complained about his bad health and the incompetence of the doctors in Majorca: "Three doctors have visited me ... The first said I was dead; the second said I was dying; and the third said I was about to die." He also had problems having his Pleyel piano sent to him. It finally arrived from Paris in December. Chopin wrote to Pleyel in January 1839: "I am sending you my Preludes [(Op. 28)]. 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." Chopin was also able to undertake work on his Ballade No. 2, Op. 38; two Polonaises, Op. 40; and the Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39.

Question: How many doctors saw Frédéric by the 3rd of December?

Question: What did Frédéric have trouble playing as a result of his growing illness?

Question: What condition did Frédéric describe the piano that arrived to him through many dangerous obstacles?

Question: How many doctors visited Chopin?

Question: What month did Chopin's piano arrive?

Question: What did Chopin compalin about?

Question: What did Chopin have a hard time getting delivered to Majorca?

Question: What month did Chopin's Pleyel piano arrive in Majorca?

Question: Who did Chopin send his Preludes to?
Passage: Although this period had been productive, the bad weather had such a detrimental effect on Chopin's health that Sand determined to leave the island. To avoid further customs duties, Sand sold the piano to a local French couple, the Canuts.[n 8] The group traveled first to Barcelona, then to Marseilles, where they stayed for a few months while Chopin convalesced. In May 1839 they headed for the summer to Sand's estate at Nohant, where they spent most summers until 1846. In autumn they returned to Paris, where Chopin's apartment at 5 rue Tronchet was close to Sand's rented accommodation at the rue Pigalle. He frequently visited Sand in the evenings, but both retained some independence. In 1842 he and Sand moved to the Square d'Orléans, living in adjacent buildings.

Question: What is stated as having a negative effect on Frédéric's health during this productive time?

Question: What culture of French people did Sand sell the piano to?

Question: What city did the group travel to in order to help Frédéric recover?

Question: Where was Sand's estate located where they stayed for the summers until 1846?

Question: Where did Frédéric and Sand move to in 1842 in buildings next to each other?

Question: Who did Sand sell Chopin's piano to?

Question: Where did the group travel to after Barcelona?

Question: Where was Sand's home?

Question: After returning to Paris where was Chopin's apartment?

Question: In 1842 where did Chopin and Sand move?

Question: What had a negative effect on Chopin's health?

Question: Who did Sand sell the piano to?

Question: Where did they travel after leaving Barcelona?

Question: Where did Chopin and Sand move to in 1842?

Question: Where did they spend most summers until 1846?
Passage: At the funeral of the tenor Adolphe Nourrit in Paris in 1839, Chopin made a rare appearance at the organ, playing a transcription of Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne. On 26 July 1840 Chopin and Sand were present at the dress rehearsal of Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, composed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution. Chopin was reportedly unimpressed with the composition.

Question: What event were Chopin and Sand at on 26 July 1840?

Question: What anniversary was the July Revolution that Sand and Chopin were present at a dress rehearsal for?

Question: At whose funeral did Chopin play in 1839?

Question: What instrument did Chopin play at Adolphe Nourrit's funeral?

Question: What piece did Chopin play at Adolphe Nourrit's funeral?

Question: Chopin attended the funeral of who in 1839?

Question: What did Chopin play at the funeral?

Question: What was the dress rehearsal for?

Question: It was in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of what?
Passage: During the summers at Nohant, particularly in the years 1839–43, Chopin found quiet, productive days during which he composed many works, including his Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53. Among the visitors to Nohant were Delacroix and the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, whom Chopin had advised on piano technique and composition. Delacroix gives an account of staying at Nohant in a letter of 7 June 1842:

Question: What is the example given of a work produced by Frédéric during calm summers at Nohant?

Question: Which of the two people that visited Chopin were tutored by him on piano?

Question: On what date did Delacroix write a letter based on his visit at Nohant?

Question: What did Chopin help Pauline Viardot with?

Question: Who were two visitors to Chopin while in Nohant?

Question: What two things did Chopin advise Viardot on?

Question: Who wrote a letter on June 7, 1842 about a stay in Nohant?
Passage: From 1842 onwards, Chopin showed signs of serious illness. After a solo recital in Paris on 21 February 1842, he wrote to Grzymała: "I have to lie in bed all day long, my mouth and tonsils are aching so much." He was forced by illness to decline a written invitation from Alkan to participate in a repeat performance of the Beethoven Seventh Symphony arrangement at Erard's on 1 March 1843. Late in 1844, Charles Hallé visited Chopin and found him "hardly able to move, bent like a half-opened penknife and evidently in great pain", although his spirits returned when he started to play the piano for his visitor. Chopin's health continued to deteriorate, particularly from this time onwards. Modern research suggests that apart from any other illnesses, he may also have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.

Question: In which year did Chopin begin experiencing a serious decline in health?

Question: To whom did Chopin write a letter on 21 February 1842 about his agonizing pain?

Question: What performance was Chopin forced to decline due to his increasing ill health?

Question: What instrument did Chopin play for Charles Hallé when the latter visited him?

Question: What has current day research suggested that Chopin was suffering from alongside his other illnesses?

Question: Starting in what year did Chopin start showing evidence of very bad health?

Question: What second performance did Chopin have to decline to play?

Question: What specific illness does modern evidence point to Chopin having?

Question: When did Chopin show signs of serious illness?

Question: Chopin wrote in 1842 that he had to lie in bed all day because what ached so much?

Question: Chopin had to decline who's invitation in 1843 to particpate in a performance at Erard's?

Question: Who visited Chopin in 1844 and wrote about his inability to move?

Question: Modern medicine indicates Chopin may have suffered from what condition?
Passage: Chopin's relations with Sand were soured in 1846 by problems involving her daughter Solange and Solange's fiancé, the young fortune-hunting sculptor Auguste Clésinger. The composer frequently took Solange's side in quarrels with her mother; he also faced jealousy from Sand's son Maurice. Chopin was utterly indifferent to Sand's radical political pursuits, while Sand looked on his society friends with disdain. As the composer's illness progressed, Sand had become less of a lover and more of a nurse to Chopin, whom she called her "third child". In letters to third parties, she vented her impatience, referring to him as a "child," a "little angel", a "sufferer" and a "beloved little corpse." In 1847 Sand published her novel Lucrezia Floriani, whose main characters—a rich actress and a prince in weak health—could be interpreted as Sand and Chopin; the story was uncomplimentary to Chopin, who could not have missed the allusions as he helped Sand correct the printer's galleys. In 1847 he did not visit Nohant, and he quietly ended their ten-year relationship following an angry correspondence which, in Sand's words, made "a strange conclusion to nine years of exclusive friendship." The two would never meet again.

Question: What was the name of Sand's daughter's fiance that contributed to deteriorating the relationship between Sand and Chopin?

Question: What was the interest Sand had that Chopin showed apathy towards?

Question: What did Sand begin referring to Chopin as as his illness got worse?

Question: What was the name of Sand's novel she published in reference to her situation with Chopin?

Question: In what year did Chopin and Sand ultimately bring their relationship to a close?

Question: When did Chopin's relationship with Sand start to deteriorate?

Question: Whom did Sand's daughter Solange become engaged to?

Question: What novel did Sand write in 1847?

Question: Who was the fortune hunter engaged to Sand's daughter?

Question: What role did Sand take on as her relationship with Chopin progressed?

Question: What was the name of Sand's book where the main characters can be interpreted as Sand and Chopin?

Question: When did Chopin end his relationship with Sand?
Passage: Chopin's output as a composer throughout this period declined in quantity year by year. Whereas in 1841 he had written a dozen works, only six were written in 1842 and six shorter pieces in 1843. In 1844 he wrote only the Op. 58 sonata. 1845 saw the completion of three mazurkas (Op. 59). Although these works were more refined than many of his earlier compositions, Zamoyski opines that "his powers of concentration were failing and his inspiration was beset by anguish, both emotional and intellectual."

Question: What was the name of the single piece of work he wrote in 1844?

Question: What can be said of these works compared to his work in other years even though the quantity was less?

Question: How many pieces did Chopin write in 1841?

Question: How many pieces did Chopin compose in 1842?

Question: What piece did Chopin compose in 1844?

Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1842?

Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1843?

Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1845?
Passage: Chopin's public popularity as a virtuoso began to wane, as did the number of his pupils, and this, together with the political strife and instability of the time, caused him to struggle financially. In February 1848, with the cellist Auguste Franchomme, he gave his last Paris concert, which included three movements of the Cello Sonata Op. 65.

Question: In what month and year did Chopin give his final performance?

Question: With whom did Chopin perform his final concert?

Question: When did Chopin last perform?

Question: Who did Chopin last perform with?

Question: Plitical strife, popularity decline, instability of era and fewer students caused Chopin to what?

Question: Who did Chopin have at his last Parisian concert in 1848?

Question: What instrument did Auguste Franchomme play?
Passage: Chopin's life was covered in a BBC TV documentary Chopin – The Women Behind The Music (2010), and in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television.

Question: What television station made a documentary on Chopin?

Question: What two people created a documentary on Chopin for Italian tv?

Question: What was the title of the documentary the BBC released?

Question: What television station released a documentary on Chopin?

Question: What was the name of the documentary released by the BBC?

Question: What are the names of the two people that created a documentary for Italian tele vision?

Question: Who did a work for Italian television about Chopin's life?
Passage: Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Roussel, with Pierre Blanchar as Chopin; Impromptu (1991), starring Hugh Grant as Chopin; La note bleue (1991); and Chopin: Desire for Love (2002).

Question: What was the name of the 1945 movie released about Chopin?

Question: What is the name of the actor who received and Oscar nomination for his role as Chopin?

Question: What year was La valse de l'adieu released?

Question: Who starred as Chopin in Impromptu?

Question: Chopins relations with whom have been fictionalized in movies?

Question: What 1945 film was a fictionalized accounting of the relationship between Chopin and Sand?

Question: Who portrayed Chopin in A Song to Remember?

Question: Who portrayed Chopin in the 1928 film, La valse de l'adieu?

Question: Who portrayed Chopin in the 1991 film, Impromptu?
Passage: Possibly the first venture into fictional treatments of Chopin's life was a fanciful operatic version of some of its events. Chopin was written by Giacomo Orefice and produced in Milan in 1901. All the music is derived from that of Chopin.

Question: When was the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life?

Question: Where was the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life created?

Question: Who is responsible for the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life?

Question: What is thought to be the first fictionalized work about Chopin?

Question: What style is the fictionalized "Chopin" in?

Question: Who wrote the fictionalized "Chopin?"

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Question: Where was the fictionalized "Chopin" produced?
Passage: Chopin has figured extensively in Polish literature, both in serious critical studies of his life and music and in fictional treatments. The earliest manifestation was probably an 1830 sonnet on Chopin by Leon Ulrich. French writers on Chopin (apart from Sand) have included Marcel Proust and André Gide; and he has also featured in works of Gottfried Benn and Boris Pasternak. There are numerous biographies of Chopin in English (see bibliography for some of these).

Question: An 1830 sonnet was written about Chopin by what man?

Question: Aside from George Sands what two French authors have written about Chopin?

Question: Leon Ulrich wrote about Chopin in what format?

Question: What is the earliest sighting of Chopin in Polish Literature?

Question: When did Ulrich do his sonnet on Chopin?

Question: In addition to Polish and French, what other language has numerous biogrpahies of Chopin?