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Paper transcribed from the National Chopin Conference Warsaw: 'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' Paper delivered by Dylan Henderson PhD ‘A fragrance of the freshest flowers’: Chopin, Pleyel and the soprani sfogati

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National Chopin Conference Warsaw December 2025   'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century'  Paper delivered by Dylan Henderson PhD  ‘A fragrance of the freshest flowers’: Chopin, Pleyel and the soprani sfogati Bouquet Of Violets (1 872)   Edouard Manet  This was a particularly important, finely written and absolutely original paper as it involved the sound of Pleyel pianos and the relationship with the voice. As is well known, Chopin was deeply concerned with opera, singing and the voice in his teaching and compositions. His favourite flowers were violets.  This was an intensely interesting conference in total, but I have decided to post this transcription of my colleague, Dr.Henderson's, unique and exceptional paper in its entirety. ‘A FRAGRANCE OF THE FRESHEST FLOWERS’  CHOPIN, PLEYEL AND THE SOPRANI SFOGATI DYLAN HENDERSON In the literature published during or shortly aft...
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Programme of the Conference 'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' 3-5 December 2025, Warsaw, Poland

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  These papers and the conference were intensely interesting. Programme of the Conference  'Through the Prism of Chopin: Women, Music, and Social Change in the Long Nineteenth Century' 3 December 2025 10.00–11.00 Keynote lecture Henrike Rost,  Writing women’s history with nineteenth-century friendship albums I will be writing brief accounts of the papers presented at this truly remarkable international conference in due course but the  writing will not happen by magic overnight !  So many new and fertile areas of thought and research concerning the social position of 19th century female composers and pianists of the day were opened up for me. An intensely current subject only now subjected to wide, close and serious academic research. 'Only connect' as E.M.Forster wrote. One example concerned how access to electricity in the modern Western world - domestic use in the 1920s - let alone during the time of Chopin when electricity simply did not exist - how th...
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