Thursday, October 27, 2011
Why so much Choppin'?
I only have time to post this before I go work so I have to make this brief! I was trying to find a concrete reason for Frederic's choice of Chopin for Celia to play, and after a quick look through Wikipedia, I came across something about Chopin that was interesting. There is a section in his Wiki that mentions his national pride for his home country of Poland. At the time they were occupied by the Russian Empire, and he wrote Revolutionary Etude in memory of the unsucessful 1830 uprising. Not sure if this is important at all but I would like to see what you guys thought about it and if you can make any more connections.
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Maybe the choice of using something that has to do with a Revolution ties back to the title of the book. Most revolutions are based on a changing of beliefs/opinions, and the uprising of one view over the original. This process happens to Theron in particular, when he is leaping onto other new ideas over his original, traditional views.
ReplyDeleteThe music would be recognizable to the original audience, too, and there's also the George Sand connection that shows Theron's complete misunderstanding of Chopin's importance.
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