FREDERIC CHOPIN
Sir-Chopin was not the emasculated figure that G.M. would have us believe. Chopin put his whole great depth of feeling for the struggles of the Polish people and his profound hatred for their oppressors into his Polonaises and Mazurkas. "He died of Poland, of a love so deep, so fervent and so constant that no human strength could endure Ee the whole hunger of a people is in his
work," wrote the English music critic G. Jean Aubrey. He was intimate with Heinrich Heine, who wrote fiery lines against Prussian tyranny. He set music to the words of Adam: Mickiewicz, Polish poet and fighter against social injustice. He sided with the working class in the great struggles in France between 1830 and 1848. In a letter written a few months before his death, the politically aware composer speaks of "labour organisatign"’ as the "really big question of the day." Perhaps the reference book \which G.M. consulted does grave injustice to the career and reputation of Frederic Chopin.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 19
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