What happened during the winter of 1838-39 in Mallorca, between Frédéric Chopin and George Sand?
Was this trip the catastrophe that has so often been described, heralding the premature end of the couple?
Or was it, on the contrary, the journey which revealed Chopin to himself… allowing him to find the culmination of his musical gesture?
This is the hypothesis adopted by the writer Jean-Yves Clément in
Le Retour de Mallque
, published a few weeks ago by Éditions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux.
The eminent specialist of the Polish composer, also artistic director of the Lisztomanias and the Chopin de Nohant festival, slips into the artist's skin to tell the story, in the form of a diary, of this return journey, interwoven with that of the creation of the
24 preludes,
a visionary masterpiece
"announcing by its aphorisms of the last Liszt and Schönberg".
There is clearly a before and an after Mallorca with Chopin, which shows that this journey, romantic and romantic, was beneficial to him.
How beneficial was the love of George Sand
Jean-Yves Clément, writer
Because, according to Clément,
“there is clearly a before and an after Mallorca in Chopin, which shows that this trip, romantic and romantic, he
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