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/* Life and Character */
Chopin quickly made for himself a good living teaching piano, and made friends among the aristocracy, as well as among the intellectual and musical elite of the French capital. He also played many concerts in aristocratic salons, and continuously composed ground-breaking piano works. He most closely identified with Polish dance forms, which found an eager audience among Parisians, who sympathized with the Polish revolutionary cause.
In 1836, he met the radical [[feminist]] and author [[George Sand]], the pen name of a Baronness Duvant, and Dudevant. In 1838 they began a high-profile relationship which would continue for the next 10 9 years. The couple spent a miserable winter in Majorca and several years in Sand's country estate of Nohant, where Chopin wrote some of his greatest works. He was however always hindered by poor health, and showed early signs of the [[tuberculosis]] which ultimately killed him.
Chopin and Sand parted company in 1847, after a series of disputes among Sand's children. His health continued to worsen, and after a brief stay in [[London]], Chopin died in 1849.
