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     Mazurka in A-flat, Op. 24, n° 3
« Faithful love will never die ... »

In the very last scene of the BBC documentary, Chopin - The Women Behind The Music, James Rhodes (piano) and Natalya Romaniw (soprano) perform an arrangement by Jenny Lind, a love song in Italian to Chopin's Mazurka in A-flat, Op. 24, n° 3:  "Faithful love will never die".

Portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1847); The Royal Collection © 2009, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.The 1894 source of this love song, Recueil de Mazourkas de F. Chopin, was discovered by Icons of Europe and documented in their book Chopin and The Swedish Nightingale (2003, p. 87).

Icons of Europe also discovered that Jenny Lind sang the love song twice for Queen Victoria in 1855 and 1856, and later on her concert tour of Russian-occupied Poland in 1858. 
Mio pover cor, lascia il dolor
ah divin piacer d’amor.
Ricer d’amor.
O speranza vien ah vien dal ciel,
fido amore mai non perirà,
fido amore mai non perirà;
no, no, no, no, no, no.
Riman fedel al tuo amor,
al dolce fido amore
mai non perirà ah!		 My poor heart, forget the pain
oh divine pleasure of love.
In search of love.
Oh hope coming from the sky,
faithful love will never die,
faithful love will never die;
no, no, no, no, no, no.
Stay faithful to your love,
to the sweet faithful love
that will never die!

Translated from Italian to English by Icons of Europe.

Sculpture of Chopin and Jenny Lind by Jacques Froment-Meurice at Parc Monceau, Paris, 1906. Provenance and meaning have been researched by Icons of Europe.While their story remained a secret, Chopin and Jenny Lind's romance and music inspired the finest artists and their patrons in Europe and America well through La.Belle Époque.  This discovery will be fully revealed and explored in Icons of Europe's new book.


Portrait of Jenny Lind (1820-1887); engraving by William Holl, after a daguerreotype of 1848 by Killburn, London.

Mazurka Op. 24/3 performed in act 6 of Icons of Europe's musical.drama at the Swedish embassy in Warsaw (2004):
video

Original booklet from 1894 with the score and text of the love song available here.

 Its WW2 history

Detail of Chopin sculpture by Jacques Froment-Meurice at Parc Monceau, Paris, 1906. Provenance and meaning have been researched by Icons of Europe.
Soon in new book

Already on
Radio Chopin
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 Above portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1847):
 The Royal Collection © 2009, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
 Portrait of Jenny Lind (1820-1887); engraving by William Holl, after
 a daguerreotype of 1848 by Killburn, London (in the booklet).
Sculpture of Chopin and Jenny Lind by Jacques Froment-Meurice at Parc Monceau,
Paris, 1906.  Provenance and meaning have been researched by Icons of Europe.