Pauline Viardot was born in France in 1821 into a Spanish musical family -- her father was a composer and had created the role of Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, and her sister Maria Malibran went on to become one of the most acclaimed divas of the nineteenth century. While she was a child, her family moved to New York, where her father ...
Frédéric Chopin's songs, in Polish, certainly stand to one side of his piano repertory. The 19 songs presented here were composed for personal use, addressed either to friends and lovers or to emigrés who, like Chopin, sympathized with Polish nationalist causes. There was no market for Polish-language songs in Paris, and these were not published ...
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