![]() That their programs were conceptually so similar was most likely a coincidence. Recently, two major pianists, Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough, explored the French side of Chopin. He fit comfortably into the world of Parisian salons. ![]() Seeking a musically richer environment, Chopin left Warsaw at 20, eventually settled in Paris and never set foot in Poland again. Yet his father was French, a translator and educator who moved to Poland, married a Polish woman and raised a family there. Chopin had a lifelong cultural and emotional connection to his homeland. ![]() To Sand and her circle it must have seemed so. ![]() The novelist George Sand, who had a volatile 10-year relationship with Chopin, used to quip to mutual friends in Paris that Chopin was more Polish than Poland. ![]()
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