Winter's End in Paris

This last composition is about Sand and Chopin’s final meeting. Both Chopin and Sand left accounts of their final meeting. Comparing them is fascinating. “I saw him again briefly in March 1848,” Sand wrote in her autobiography. “I clasped his trembling, icy hand. I wanted to talk to him; he vanished. It was my turn to say he no longer loved me.” Chopin, on the other hand, wrote a longer account in a March 1848 letter to Solange, Sand's daughter: “Yesterday… I met your Mother in the doorway of the vestibule….” He asked whether Sand had any news about Solange, and let Sand know that Solange had had a baby, since mother and daughter weren’t on good terms at the time. He “bowed and went downstairs.” Then he decided he had more to say, so he asked a servant to bring her to him again. They talked some more. “She asked me how I am; I replied that I am well, and asked the concierge to open the door.” Chopin died a little more than a year later. Sand opted not to attend his funeral. She lived many more years and wrote many more books. Drawing : Fryderyk Chopin reading and Maurice Sand writing by Pauline Viardot #chopin #romanticeramusic #pianocomposition #newmusicrelease #musicalstorytelling