Ebook: Chopin's Funeral

Lacrymosa dies illa, "what weeping on that day" -- First meetings -- A genius in the family -- The education of an exile -- The capital of desire -- Preludes to paradise -- Homecoming -- Labors of love -- Earthquakes and harvests -- Children of paradise -- Deaths foretold -- Forty pounds of jam -- A victim of time -- Lucrezia Floriani -- Winter journeys -- Expulsion from paradise -- "The abyss called London" -- Recordare -- Appendix: Chopin's photograph.;A portrait of the great composer examines his final years, his legendary affair with novelist George Sand, his life as an artist in exile, and his decline and destitute final days.