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List of Content of the Biography
CHOPIN and
The Swedish Nightingale
Cover of the book (pdf)
Foreword
The Swedish Nightingale
A musician's perspective
Statement by the Director-General, WHO

CHAPTERS

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I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII
The French connection

Growing up in Poland

Paris: a new world

Life with George Sand

Last bow in England and Scotland

It was Jenny Lind, not Jane Stirling

Jenny Lind: "... faithful love will never die"

Why scholars missed it for so long
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ANNEXES

Acknowledgments and sources
Important letters from Chopin
Chopin societies and The Jenny Lind Society
Glossary
Index
The authors
Back cover (pdf)
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Book synopsis


“Her singing is pure and sure, but what I admired most was her piano” (Chopin, 11 May 1848). Image: Jenny Lind, after painting by Louis Asher.

 

"... and we did not leave the piano from 9 till 1 in the night" -  Chopin writing to his family on 19 August 1848 about Jenny Lind.

"I knit myself too closely to people whom I love, and cannot, then believe that I must lose them again!" - Jenny Lind writing to a friend on 29 October 1849.
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