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She had three children to care for: her rheumatism-plagued son and daughter, and her lover, who was suffering from the onset of pulmonary tuberculosis. A vacation to Mallorca was supposed to provide relief for the son's and lover's complaints, but it turned out to be a disaster because, after the first comfortable accommodation, they had to make do with an old, damp monastery. When she returns to the hostel with the children from a midday excursion, she finds the sick man with his nerves completely shattered. He has just written down a piano piece whose steady eighth notes are reminiscent of the falling raindrops of the storm that has just passed. But health-wise, the vacation has done him no good. After years he will separate from his beloved and die of his lung disease. Their son, however, the stay has done good, and he will be sixty-six years old by 1889, after all.
What young Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant experienced that winter was the creation of Frédéric Chopin's famous Raindrop Prelude. It is curious: Maurice subsequently seems to have led a very bourgeois life, but it has never lacked great names and great art. At home in Nohant-Vic, his friends and table companions in his mother's salon included such greats as Balzac, Flaubert, and Franz Liszt, in addition to Chopin. It is reported that he even met Abraham Lincoln in America. The adolescent Baron Dudevant embarked on an artistic career. He calls himself Maurice Sand, because Sand is the pen name of his mother, the writer and feminist known as George Sand, for some of her contemporaries the epitome of the enfant terrible: a cigar smoker in men's clothes, descended from Moritz Count of Saxony. Maurice is active in a wide variety of fields, especially as a writer and even as a well-known breeder and collector of butterflies. But first and foremost he works as a visual artist. His teacher was none other than Eugène Delacroix, a - who would be surprised - friend of his mother.
Maurice Sand created paintings, but his passion was illustrations and graphics on a wide variety of subjects. He put his heart and soul into his main work, the book "Masques et Bouffons": In his mother's mansion, which he lived with her for most of his life, they had already set up a puppet stage in his youth. This became more and more professionalized over the years. Inspired by this stage (which is now a museum), he wrote an account of the commedia dell'arte, illustrated with illustrations of puppets in costumes of the genre, whose historical development he depicted. In 1860, the year of publication, he was inducted into the Legion of Honor, a favor later bestowed on Delacroix, and humorously rejected by his mother. Late he marries the daughter of an engraver who is a friend of the family and becomes a father, his age-mild mother a loving grandmother. They are buried together at home in Nohant-Vic.
She had three children to care for: her rheumatism-plagued son and daughter, and her lover, who was suffering from the onset of pulmonary tuberculosis. A vacation to Mallorca was supposed to provide relief for the son's and lover's complaints, but it turned out to be a disaster because, after the first comfortable accommodation, they had to make do with an old, damp monastery. When she returns to the hostel with the children from a midday excursion, she finds the sick man with his nerves completely shattered. He has just written down a piano piece whose steady eighth notes are reminiscent of the falling raindrops of the storm that has just passed. But health-wise, the vacation has done him no good. After years he will separate from his beloved and die of his lung disease. Their son, however, the stay has done good, and he will be sixty-six years old by 1889, after all.
What young Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant experienced that winter was the creation of Frédéric Chopin's famous Raindrop Prelude. It is curious: Maurice subsequently seems to have led a very bourgeois life, but it has never lacked great names and great art. At home in Nohant-Vic, his friends and table companions in his mother's salon included such greats as Balzac, Flaubert, and Franz Liszt, in addition to Chopin. It is reported that he even met Abraham Lincoln in America. The adolescent Baron Dudevant embarked on an artistic career. He calls himself Maurice Sand, because Sand is the pen name of his mother, the writer and feminist known as George Sand, for some of her contemporaries the epitome of the enfant terrible: a cigar smoker in men's clothes, descended from Moritz Count of Saxony. Maurice is active in a wide variety of fields, especially as a writer and even as a well-known breeder and collector of butterflies. But first and foremost he works as a visual artist. His teacher was none other than Eugène Delacroix, a - who would be surprised - friend of his mother.
Maurice Sand created paintings, but his passion was illustrations and graphics on a wide variety of subjects. He put his heart and soul into his main work, the book "Masques et Bouffons": In his mother's mansion, which he lived with her for most of his life, they had already set up a puppet stage in his youth. This became more and more professionalized over the years. Inspired by this stage (which is now a museum), he wrote an account of the commedia dell'arte, illustrated with illustrations of puppets in costumes of the genre, whose historical development he depicted. In 1860, the year of publication, he was inducted into the Legion of Honor, a favor later bestowed on Delacroix, and humorously rejected by his mother. Late he marries the daughter of an engraver who is a friend of the family and becomes a father, his age-mild mother a loving grandmother. They are buried together at home in Nohant-Vic.