Genius and Melancholia

Dorota Mackenzie

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-235-5933-7

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323559337

Wydawnictwo:

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Rok wydania:

2023

Liczba stron:

283

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ONIX MARC21

Acknowledgments9
Introduction11
Abbreviations17
Chopin as a Suffering Melancholic GeniusChapter 1. Performance of the Body 21 Romantic Genius and the Divine Malady22
Tuberculosis: Its Romantic Metaphors in Popular Culture versus Medical Etiology25
Fryderyk Chopin – the Suffering Genius – Case Study under a Performative Lens31
Banishing TB – Internal and External Asylums – Mallorca and Nohant39
The Many-Faced Disease – Chopin Aut Deus, Aut Daemon50
Romantic Gothicism54
Water and the Melancholic Victory of Sorrow59
Genius63
Chapter 2. Performance of Spirit 73 Genius, Melancholia, and Inspiration73
Furor Romanticus – Furor Melancholicus75
Chopin’s Algorithm of Existential Sorrow – Moja Biéda80
From Melancholia Generosa to Modern Genius87
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae – Some Aspects of the Romantic Genius, le Génie Mélancolique91
(Non-)Prophet96
Romantic Genius and Psychoanalysis – the Concept of Inward Performative Personality and Shame100
Virtuosos”111
Performance on the Verge – Between the Enlightenment and Romanticism: Building the Grounds for Correspondance des Arts119
Shifting Codes of Representation – the Virtuoso of Caricature and Improvisation126
The Epiphany of the Virtuoso: Pinpointing the Mystery132
Microcosme et Microthée: The Piano as the Divine Telegraph and the Instrument of the Nineteenth Century138
Bel Canto, or the Tubercular Song145
Tempo Rubato: Towards Celebrityism à Rebours150
Salons157
“Playing House”168
Lucrezia Floriani’s Doll Effect177
Gender Ambivalence in the Representation of the Genius Dandy182
Chopin Flâneur? Espaces Imaginaires189
Cosmopolitanism200
Soul213
Transcendental Chopin – Conversations with God221
Chopin’s Epistemology – Tere bzdere kuku – Music as Existence228
Mason without an Apron – Chopin and Freemasonry232
Chopin the Philistine? In the arms of Biedermeier, “Domesticized Romanticism”236
Epilogue. In the Shadow of the Romantic Paradigm 241 Chopin’s Afterlife – towards the Chopin Olympics – Apollo and Marsyas241
Performativity245
Bibliography249
Index of Persons271

CHAPTER1.PERFORMANCEOFTHEBODY

determinedChopin’sartisticlifeandculturalafterlife.AsSusanSontagwritesinher

famousstudyIllnessasMetaphor:

Mypointisthatillnessisnotametaphor,andthatthemosttruthfulwayofregarding

illness-andthehealthiestwayofbeingill-isonemostpurifiedof,mostresistantto,

metaphoricthinking.Yetitishardlypossibletotakeupone’sresidenceinthekingdom

oftheillunprejudicedbytheluridmetaphorswithwhichithasbeenlandscaped.7

InthecaseofChopin’slife,whichcanbeviewedasagrandperformanceinallits

aspects,oneoftheperformanceswhichconstitutethespectacleofhisexistencecan

bethatofgenius.Theillness,whichledtohisdeathattheearlyageofthirty-nine,

hasbeenmythologizedandplacedinadimensionofthehistoryofideas.

CyprianKamilNorwidwroteinthecomposer’sobituarypublishedinDziennik

PolskionOctober25,1849:

RodemWarszawianin,sercemPolak,atalentemświataobywatelFryderykChopin,

zeszedłztegoświata.Chorobapiersiowaprzyspieszyłaśmierćzawczesnąartystywtrzy-

dziestymdziewiątymrokużycia-dniasiedemnastegomiesiącabieżącego.8

[BornaVarsovian,aPoleinhisheart,andinhistalentacitizenoftheworld,Fryderyk

Chopinhasdepartedthisworld.Hischestdiseasehasacceleratedtheprematuredeath

ofthecomposerinhisthirty-ninethyear-ontheseventeenthofthecurrentmonth.9]

Theillnesswhichconsumedhimisreferedtoasuchestdisease”,probablyfor

fearthatpronouncingutuberculosis”wouldhastenthecourseofthemalady,even

inapossibleafterlife,justlikeitwasportrayedinmanyartisticandnon-fiction

testimoniesoftheperiod.

TheRevueetgazettemusicaledeParisinitsOctober21,1849,issueplacedanobitu-

arywhichisaperfectopeningforourinvestigationintotheperformanceofRomantic

geniusandallthenecessaryculturalingredientswhichestablishit.Chopinwasnot

atypicalRomantic,notatypicalgeniusandnotatypicaltuberculosisvictim.The

ailmentisnotevenmentionedintheobituary.However,acertaincompatibilityof

thephysicalandmetaphysicalisnoted:

7SusanSontag,IllnessasMetaphor;AIDSandItsMetaphors,PenguinClassics,NewYork,2002,p.3.

Sontag’sIllnessasMetaphorfirstappearedinaseriesofarticlesinTheNewYorkReviewofBooks:

vol.XXIV,no.21&22(January26,1978);vol.XXV,no.1(February9,1978);vol.XXV,no.2

(February23,1978).

8FryderykChopindiedonOctober17,1849,inParis.Norwidwrotethislaconiccharacteristic

ofthegeniustwodaysafterhehadpassed.Itisirrelevantforourstudieswhetherthesickness

whichkilledhimwastuberculosisormucoviscidosis(cysticfibrosis)-whatinterestsmehereis

theculturalimageofthesicknesses,whichinbothcasesissimilarandreferredtoasuthechest

disease”.Theobituaryisquotedafter:FryderykChopin.Diariuszparimage,ed.BożenaWeber,

Arkady,Warszawa,1990,p.260.

9Unlessotherwisestated,alltranslationsaretheauthor’s.

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