(kohustatud) to relinquish (loovutama) some of the privileges appertaining (juurde kuuludes) to a baroness. Poet Charles Baudelaire was a contemporary critic of George Sand: "She is stupid, heavy and garrulous (lobisev). Her ideas on morals have the same depth of judgment and delicacy of feeling as those of janitresses and kept women.... The fact that there are men who could become enamoured of this slut is indeed a proof of the abasement of the men of this generation." Relationships Sand had affairs with Jules Sandeau (1831), Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset, Louis- Chrystosome Michel, Pierre-François Bocage, Félicien Mallefille and Frédéric Chopin. Later in life, she corresponded (kirjavahetuses olema) with Gustave Flaubert with who they became close friends. She was engaged in an intimate friendship with actress Marie Dorval, which led to widespread but unconfirmed rumors of a lesbian affair.
lot of attention to the phenomena of cultural life in general. Without this background and the changes in it there would be no new and novel happenings in the Arts. For evaluating the past and present we need a perspective. This perspective cannot be confined to that which is at hand at the present moment: it loses its sense. While examining our present achievements we must not praise them excessively: this may lead to the abasement of the ideal. The essential development of Estonian music has taken place within the past one hundred years. The creation of national symphonic works indicated that a remarkable cultural level had been attained. A need for such music had arisen and there were composers able to fulfil that need. Further development has brought forth pregnant, succinct individual works based on both nationally inspired and international means of expression