What happened during the winter of 1838-39 in Majorca, 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 that 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 Mallorca
, 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 festival in Nohant, slips into the skin of the artist to tell the story, in the form of a diary, of this return journey, interspersed with that of the creation of the
24 preludes,
a visionary masterpiece
“heralding through its aphorisms the later Liszt and Schönberg”.
There is clearly a before and after Majorca for Chopin, which shows that this journey, romantic and romantic, was beneficial to him.
How undeniably beneficial the love of George Sand was to him
Jean-Yves Clément, writer
Because, according to Clément,
“there is clearly a before and after Majorca in Chopin, which shows that this journey, romantic and romantic,…
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