Chopin sails home from a miserable Majorcan break
On 13 February 1839, Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand came to the end of a winter break on the island of Majorca that they would never forget. On paper, the two were hardly a match made in heaven. Chopin was a natural introvert, whose emotional restlessness and passionate intensity were unleashed in his music rather than his personal life. Physically frail, the early signs of
