{"id":14387,"date":"2026-11-07T14:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T13:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qwien.at\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T13:36:29","slug":"a-extensive-chopin-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qwien.at\/en\/a-extensive-chopin-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"A extensive Chopin biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row section_type=&#8221;container-width&#8221; padding_top_multiplier=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom_multiplier=&#8221;4x&#8221; rc_link_color=&#8221;primary-1&#8243; rc_bg_type=&#8221;color&#8221; rc_font_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; rc_bg_color=&#8221;#2D0045&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;6\/12&#8243;]<div class=\"grve-element grve-image grve-align-center grve-image-space-100 grve-image-expand-width\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grve-image-item\">\r\n\t\t\r\n\r\n<div class=\"grve-image-wrapper grve-no-effect\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grve-thumbnail-wrapper\"><div class=\"grve-thumbnail\"  style=\"padding-top: 144.715%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1769\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Cover_web-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Cover_web-scaled.jpg 1x,https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Cover_web-scaled.jpg 2x\" data-column-space=\"100\" data-lazyload=\"\" data-grve-filter=\"yes\" \/><\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; text_style=&#8221;small-text&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwabe.ch\/produkt\/moritz-weber-chopins-maenner-9783796554292-t-15888\">Moritz Weber: Chopins M\u00e4nner [Chopin\u2019s Men]. Basel\/Berlin: Schwabe Verlag 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243; rc_bg_type=&#8221;color&#8221; column_sticky=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_sticky_offset=&#8221;150&#8243; rc_bg_color=&#8221;#2D0045&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/12&#8243; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-6x\"><\/div><h3 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-h3 grve-increase-heading grve-heading-250 grve-text-white\"><span>Chopins M\u00e4nner<\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<em>Moritz Weber presents his extensive Chopin biography at Qwien<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Review from Andreas Brunner[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row section_type=&#8221;container-width&#8221; padding_top_multiplier=&#8221;2x&#8221; rc_link_color=&#8221;primary-1&#8243; rc_bg_type=&#8221;color&#8221; rc_font_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; rc_bg_color=&#8221;#2D0045&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<em>\u201eIch dr\u00fccke dich herzlich, direkt auf die Lippen [\u2026] Gib einen Kuss.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI embrace you warmly, right on the lips [\u2026] Give me a kiss.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is nothing I desire more than to see you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy life; [\u2026] I want to cuddle with you. Let me embrace you once more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The composer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin, deeply in love, addressed these declarations not to a supposed mistress but to a man: Tytus Woyciechowski, the great love of his life, with whom he also lived in Vienna for several weeks in 1829.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGive me a kiss, dearest beloved. I am convinced that you still love me, and I always fear you as one fears a tyrant, my tyrant [\u2026]\u201d<\/em>, Chopin confesses to his Tytus.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div><h3 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-h3 grve-increase-heading grve-heading-140 grve-text-white\"><span>A Heterosexualised Chopin<\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]While mainstream cinema celebrates an entirely fictional love affair between Chopin and George Sand, the Swiss musicologist Moritz Weber presents a biography of more than 500 pages on Chopin and his men, meticulously researched on the basis of the surviving sources. Weber reveals how the image of a heterosexual Chopin was constructed. Numerous letters were mutilated and censored so that Chopin\u2019s declarations of love to his men would no longer be recognisable.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, Chopin scholarship distorts its sources, to the point that personal pronouns in translations of the letters are (knowingly) falsified. A \u201che\u201d suddenly becomes a \u201cshe\u201d, a male lover becomes a female one. Weber had existing translations reviewed and retranslated by certified translation agencies in order to clarify ambiguous renderings from the Polish.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div><h3 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-h3 grve-increase-heading grve-heading-140 grve-text-white\"><span>Homosexual Subculture<\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Weber situates his portrait of Chopin as a man who loved men, and who knew that his relationships were liable to criminal prosecution and social ostracism, within the discourses on same-sex desire of his time. He reconstructs a network of relationships, shows spaces for uninhibited encounters and draws on police reports to identify places that Chopin and his closest friends frequented and that were known to the police as homosexual meeting places.<\/p>\n<p>In those years Paris was regarded as an exceptionally permissive city that offered men who desired men many opportunities, whether in the shopping arcades of the Galerie d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans in the Palais-Royal, which Chopin liked to visit, or in various parks and bathhouses.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div><h3 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-h3 grve-increase-heading grve-heading-140 grve-text-white\"><span>A Homosocial Milieu<\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Alongside Tytus Woyciechowski, Weber traces the biographies of twelve men with whom Chopin had close (romantic) relationships in Poland and above all in Paris. It becomes clear that Chopin, much like Franz Schubert, moved in thoroughly homosocial circles.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 450 pages, Weber also turns to Chopin\u2019s \u201cfabled contacts with women\u201d and reaches a sobering conclusion: \u201cFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin never wrote a single love letter to a woman in his entire life, never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chopin\u2019s relationships with women are literary inventions of the nineteenth century. There is \u201cno reliable evidence, no concrete quotations or anything unambiguous in written form\u201d to support them. His friendship with George Sand was no passionate love affair. It was shaped far more by the writer\u2019s maternal affection for the composer, who was by then seriously ill.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div><div data-display-style=\"none\" data-spinner=\"no\" data-columns-large-screen=\"2\" data-columns=\"2\" data-columns-tablet-landscape=\"2\" data-columns-tablet-portrait=\"2\" data-columns-mobile=\"1\" data-layout=\"fitRows\" data-gutter-size=\"30\" data-animation=\"zoom-in\" data-items-height=\"equal\" class=\"grve-element grve-gallery grve-isotope grve-gallery-popup grve-with-gap\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grve-isotope-container\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grve-grid-sizer\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grve-entry-item grve-popup-item \">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-isotope-item-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-hover-item grve-hover-style-1\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grve-image-hover grve-media grve-none\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"grve-item-url\" href=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Chopin-Brief-Grzymala.jpg\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-thumbnail-wrapper\"><div class=\"grve-thumbnail\"  style=\"padding-top: 133.333%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" src=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Chopin-Brief-Grzymala-840x1120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-impeka-grve-medium-rect-vertical size-impeka-grve-medium-rect-vertical\" alt=\"\" data-column-space=\"100\" data-lazyload=\"\" data-grve-filter=\"yes\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Chopin-Brief-Grzymala-840x1120.jpg 840w, https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Chopin-Brief-Grzymala-560x747.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-bg-white grve-hover-overlay grve-opacity-90\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grve-entry-item grve-popup-item \">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-isotope-item-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-hover-item grve-hover-style-1\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grve-image-hover grve-media grve-none\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"grve-item-url\" href=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Tytus_Woyciechowski_1875_Wikipedia.jpg\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-thumbnail-wrapper\"><div class=\"grve-thumbnail\"  style=\"padding-top: 133.333%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" src=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Tytus_Woyciechowski_1875_Wikipedia-840x1120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-impeka-grve-medium-rect-vertical size-impeka-grve-medium-rect-vertical\" alt=\"\" data-column-space=\"100\" data-lazyload=\"\" data-grve-filter=\"yes\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Tytus_Woyciechowski_1875_Wikipedia-840x1120.jpg 840w, https:\/\/qwien.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Tytus_Woyciechowski_1875_Wikipedia-560x747.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grve-bg-white grve-hover-overlay grve-opacity-90\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div><h3 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-inherit grve-h3 grve-increase-heading grve-heading-140 grve-text-white\"><span>What Does This Have to Do with Art?<\/span><\/h3>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]With heterosexual artists, every emotional stirring is said to find its way into their art. One need only think of Beethoven and his piano pieces supposedly inspired by heartbreak. As soon as homosexuality comes into play, however, people ask what that has to do with art. This ignores the fact that artistic works, as in Chopin\u2019s case, can be an expression of deep love. Chopin dedicated ten piano works to Tytus Woyciechowski, more than to anyone else. His music expressed his feelings for Tytus, as he himself admits in a letter: \u201cI tell the piano what I would so often say to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weber follows these traces as well and shows how Chopin inscribed his love for Tytus into one of his best-known works: the slow second movement of his <em>Piano Concerto in F minor<\/em>, set in A-flat major, the favourite key of Tytus, whom Chopin affectionately called \u201cMr A-flat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 500 gripping pages, Moritz Weber\u2019s richly sourced biography of the Polish-French composer\u2019s love life leaves no room for doubt. Chopin loved men.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"grve-empty-space grve-height-1x\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Book presentation &amp; talk on 19 November, 6.30 pm at Qwien.<br \/>\nRamperstorffergasse 39, 1050 Vienna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/qwien.at\/en\/chopins-maenner\/\">https:\/\/qwien.at\/chopins-maenner\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interview requests: <a href=\"mailto:presse@qwien.at\">presse@qwien.at<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review by Andreas Brunner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qwien-books","category-literature-archive","grve-entry-item","grve-blog-item"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A extensive Chopin biography - Blog - Qwien - Zentrum f\u00fcr queere Geschichte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Moritz Weber presents his extensive Chopin biography at Qwien. 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