Maurycy Karasowski

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

LIFE OF CHOPIN.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

FOOTNOTES:

INDEX.

Transcriberʼs Notes

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

For the readers convenience, the index from Vol. II. has been added to the end of this volume.

FREDERIC CHOPIN

HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND WORKS.

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.