Chopin & Tbc

Fryderyk Chopin was born in Warsaw 200 years ago. By the time of his death from tuberculosis in 1849, the virtuoso and composer seemed to float gracefully above his troubled age. He came to resemble a musical "angel", "too fine, too exquisite, too perfect" for this crude world, as his great love, and great torment, the feminist novelist George Sand, once expressed it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/chopin-prince-of-the-romantics-by-adam-zamoyski-1937419.html