![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After the concert that night, Georges convinces Chopin to leave for her country estate before signing contracts with Pleyel. After Georges enters the room carrying a candelabra and illuminates Chopin's presence, the audience erupts in applause. When Liszt requests that the room be darkened, Chopin uses the cover of blackness to take his place at the piano. Determined to prove her hunch, Georges invites Chopin to attend Liszt's performance at the Duchess of Orlean's salon. Despite the devastating reviews of his performance, Georges proclaims that Chopin is a true genius. Deeply troubled, Chopin fumbles his piece on the keyboard and runs off the stage. On the night of Chopin's concert debut, word arrives from Poland that two of the composer's friends have been executed for aiding his escape. There, Liszt introduces them to the poet Alfred de Musset and the novelist Georges Sand, who is garbed in men's attire. To celebrate his pupil's success, the professor takes him to a famous café frequented by artists. When Chopin joins Liszt in a duet, Pleyel recognizes the composer's genius and offers him a concert appearance. As Pleyel and the professor argue, composer Franz Liszt sits down at the piano and begins to play Chopin's unfinished composition, a Polanaise. In Paris, the professor takes his protege to see Pleyet, but the impresario is only interested in Chopin, the child prodigy, not Chopin, the grown man. As the professor and Chopin prepare to depart, Constantia, one of Chopin's comrades, presents him with a pouch of Polish soil. His life endangered by the outburst, Chopin is forced to flee Poland, and the professor suggests taking refuge in Paris. When the Russian Governor General of Poland unexpectedly appears at the concert, Chopin denounces him as "a Czarist butcher" and storms out of the room. Eleven years later, Chopin is summoned to play at a concert for a count. When the eleven-year-old Chopin becomes preoccupied with his country's struggle for freedom against the Russian Czarists, the professor inspires the boy by telling him that his fame as a pianist will pave the way for Polish freedom. The Chopin family is poor, however, and consequently, cannot afford their son's passage to Paris. In the early nineteenth century in Warsaw, Poland, music teacher Professor Joseph Elsner receives a letter from Louis Pleyel, a celebrated Parisian music publisher and impresario, offering to audition the professor's pupil, child prodigy Frédéric Chopin. ![]()
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