(not) The Official Ludwika Chopin

(1807 - 1855) Composer and writer; elder sister of Fryderyk Chopin; mother of four beautiful children! Have you seen my husband? No? Great!

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I leave the house, I walk the streets, get melancholy, and come home again.

— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski c. September 1830

[ohchopin]

Liszt describes Chopin's hospitality

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Incredibly realistic render of Frédéric Chopin by Hadi Kamiri

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About a year ago I made a small silly animation about the life of Chopin. It was suppose to become a two minute long infographic, but halfway through I decided not to finish it because I didn’t like how it was starting to look. So here I made a small gifset of several parts I kinda liked. I used paintings to illustrate the silhouettes.

|| In order: Chopin arrives in Paris, he performs in Paris, he meets Frans Liszt, he longs for Poland, George Sand, Ludwika returning to Poland with her brother’s heart ||

[ludwikachopin-official]

Happy 210th birthday to Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin!🎉

[ohchopin]

As a Catholic, Chopin took a conservative stance (…) George Sand, on the other hand, praised sexuality, had socialistic ideals, and criticized the Catholic Church. However, following generations prefer to see the potential for a romantic love affair, rather than conflict between the two. (Dieter David Scholz)

Faith in God and respect for religious tradition Chopin acquired at home, mainly thanks to and from his mother to whom he was deeply attached. By means of emotional reasoning he internalized his faith. It had its place in a strictly private sphere. “For a week now I have not written anything, neither for people nor for God” - he disclosed to T. Wojciechowski. When he wrote dates in his letters he never forgot to put in names of important current holidays: Christmas or Corpus Christi.

But the most convincing evidence comes - paradoxically - from George Sand herself. While remembering in her Histoire de ma vie the years of her relationship with Chopin she fully did him justice as a great artist but could not refrain from formulating a single but vital charge. It concerned his “closing up in Catholic dogmas”. And she added, not without affection: “He used to say to me: “I suppose, nay, I am sure that she loves God.” (Prof. Mieczysław Tomaszewski)

As Liszt rightly put it (1852, p. 114): “Deeply religious and honestly devoted to Catholicism, Chopin never spoke openly about it, keeping the matters of faith to himself and never manifesting them to the outside world.”

It is also worth noting that Chopin was very familiar with the Holy Bible and he could quote it from memory until the end of his life. In a letter of 17–18 October 1848 to Grzymała he wrote with visible impatience about camouflaged attempts to convince him to follow Protestantism on the part of Miss Stirling’s sister:

“Mrs. Erskine, who is a very devout Protestant, and honest, would probably like to bring me round to Protestantism — she brings me the Bible, talks about the soul — takes down Psalms for me — religious, honest, but really concerned about my soul — she’s always saying there is a better world than this one — but I know it by heart and answer her with quotes from the Holy Bible and explain to her that I know all about it.” (Dr. Jacek Jadacki)

[ohchopin]

Bust of Fryderyk Chopin by J. Clesinger, Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, 1926

[quotes-for-every-occasion]

“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable only when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art”

— Chopin

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12 Etudes, Op.10 : No. 5 In G Flat Major - “Black Keys”

By Composer Fryderyk Chopin  

Nikita Magaloff, Pianist  

Artwork : “Raindrops Prelude” (1919) By Artist Arthur Ignatius Keller (1867-1924)

[iirememberthinking]

Dear whoever is reading this: I wish you a life full of warmth and happiness and love. I hope you’re okay. And if you aren’t now, you will be.

[ludwikachopin-official]

An actual bakery in Beirut, Lebanon, where I live. But apart from the name, I don’t think there is much else that’s very special. Just another bakery, I guess.

[ludwikachopin-official]

Yes, but it is still awesome to see stuff like this! Makes me happy to think about the impact he made on the world with his music, so that people name places like this after him❤️ thank you!

[ludwikachopin-official]

An actual bakery in Beirut, Lebanon, where I live. But apart from the name, I don't think there is much else that's very special. Just another bakery, I guess.

[aurore-dupin]

Guys I’m not kidding, if you haven’t read George Sand’s 32 page letter about Chopin you are missing out.

[aurore-dupin]

George Sand in the April of 1837

[thecuriouspianist]

“[Chopin] is polite to excess, and yet there is so much irony, so much spite hidden inside it. Woe betide the person who allows himself to be taken in. He has an extraordinarily keen eye, and will catch the smallest absurdity and mock it wonderfully.”

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Zofia Zaleska, a Polish pupil of Chopin’s in Paris

[source: The Parisian Worlds of Frédéric Chopin, Atwood]

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chopin be dropping some truth bombs

[hayaomiyazaki]

— Frédéric Chopin, in a letter to Jan Matuszyński written c. 26 December 1830