Impromptu (Film 1991)

Impromptu is a 1991 period drama film directed by James Lapine, written by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand.

It was shot entirely on location in France as a British production by an American company. Its main filming location was at the Château des Briottières outside Angers, in the Loire Valley.

Cast & Characters:
Judy Davis as George Sand (Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin)
Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin
Mandy Patinkin as Alfred de Musset
Bernadette Peters as Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult
Julian Sands as Franz Liszt
Ralph Brown as Eugène Delacroix
Georges Corraface as Felicien Mallefille
Anton Rodgers as Duke d'Antan
Emma Thompson as Duchess d'Antan
Anna Massey as Sophie-Victorie Delaborde, George Sand's Mother

Music by Chopin:
Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat major (Op. 29)
Ballade No. 1 in G minor (Op. 23)
Polonaise in A major "Military" (Op. 40, No.1)
Etude in E minor "Wrong Note" (Op. 25, No. 5)
Prelude in G-sharp minor (Op. 28, No. 12)
Prelude in D-flat major "Raindrop" (Op. 28, No. 15)
Etude in G-flat major "Butterfly" (Op. 25, No. 9)
Nouvelle Etude No. 1 in F minor
Etude in C-sharp minor (Op. 10, No. 4)
Waltz in D-flat major "Minute" (Op. 64, No. 1)
Fantasy-Impromptu in C-sharp minor (Op. 66)
Nocturne in F major (Op. 15, No. 1)
Etude in A-flat major "Aeolian Harp" (Op. 25, No. 1)

Music by Liszt:
Apres d'une lecture de Dante (from Années de Pèlerinage, 2nd year)
Transcendental Etude No. 4 "Mazeppa"
Grand galop chromatique

Music by Beethoven:
Symphony No.6 in F major "Pastoral"