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永远长不大作曲家 　　The Composer Who Never Grew Up 　　翻译：许婉燕 　　The Composer Who Never Grew Up 　　每当提到肖邦，人们首先想到的往往是他的音乐。本文作者却另辟蹊径，从其最后也是最重要的恋情说起，为我们展现了这位伟大音乐家的另一面― 　　 　　For pianists and lovers of piano music, it is impossible to escape an acquaintance with the works of Frederick Chopin, who was perhaps the greatest composer of piano music during the Romantic Era of the 19th Century. What could almost be compared with his well-known music, however, is his final lover, George Sand注1, who was as famous for her love affairs as for her novels. In fact, her fictions made her, in the history of French literature, probably second only to Victor Hugo注2. 　　The relationship with Chopin is the last great emotional turning point in George Sand’s life. Chopin was the greatest 1)genius who ever loved her. It is rather strange that he loved her. She had known him for two years, and had not seriously thought of him. Then at last she once more met Chopin, when he was in a state of 2)melancholy, because a Polish girl had proved unfaithful to him. 　　Sand found him at a piano, 3)improvising a 4)lamentation. She stood beside him, listening. When he finished and looked up at her, their eyes met. She bent down without a word and kissed him on the lips. This kiss attached her to Chopin for eight years. 　　It was Sand who stage-managed the concert at the Salle Pleyel注3 about which her “little Chip-Chipworried so much. Chopin, in fact, disliked grand concert halls. His 5)delicate piano technique was better suited to 6)intimate salon performances. But his fear of appearing before a crowd of strangers has 7)psychological reasons too, suggesting the childlike insecurity which remained with him all his life. Chopin appeared to have had a 8)shaky sense of self. At the time of his early death in 1849, he was already a myth: the “an-ngelicartist, the heroic Polish 9)patriot, the 10)doomed lover. But of the thousands who crowded into ParisChurch of the Madeleine for his 11)magnificent 12)funeral, few, i