Chopin
Prince of the Romantics
Adam Zamoyski
William Collins
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To Emma
Table of Contents
Thirteen The End of the Affair
Sixteen The Jealousy of Heaven
Justyna Chopin.
Nicolas Chopin.
The house at Żelazowa Wola in which Chopin was born.
Ludwika Chopin.
Izabela Chopin.
Emilia Chopin.
The Warsaw Lycée.
The Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
Wojciech Żywny.
The drawing room of the Chopin apartment.
Józef Elsner.
Tytus Woyciechowski.
Chopin drawn by Eliza Radziwiłł, 1826.
Chopin at the age of twenty, by Ambroży Mieroszewski.
Konstancja Gładkowska.
Jan Matuszyński.
Chopin, portrait by an unknown artist, early 1830s.
Hector Berlioz.
Franz Liszt.
Felix Mendelssohn.
Hiller and Chopin, a contemporary medal.
Vincenzo Bellini.
Chopin in the mid-1830s.
Delfina Potocka.
Chopin’s apartment on the rue de la Chaussée d’Antin.
Astolphe