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Transcriberʼs Note:
For the readers convenience, the index from Vol. II.
has been added to the end of this volume.
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[Illustration: FREDERICK CHOPIN.]
FREDERIC CHOPIN
_HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND WORKS_
BY
MORITZ KARASOWSKI.
With Portrait.
_TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY_
EMILY HILL.
“Chopin is and remains the boldest and proudest poetic spirit
of the age.”—
ROBERT SCHUMANN
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.
LONDON:
WILLIAM REEVES, 185, FLEET STREET,
_Publisher of Musical Works_.
1879.
G. HILL, STEAM PRINTER,
WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD,
LONDON.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Preface
CHAPTER I.
Nicholas Chopinʼs Family and Friends. Zywny. Elsner. 1.