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Walker, Alan, 1930-
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Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
Composers -- Biography.
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Walker, Alan, 1930-
Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
Composers -- Biography.
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Fryderyk
Chopin
: a
life
and
times
/ Alan Walker.
by
Walker, Alan, 1930-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Call #:
786.2092 C549w
Subjects
Chopin
, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
Composers -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374159061 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxix, 727 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue --
Chopin
's family background -- Childhood and youth in Warsaw, 1810-1824 -- Exploring Poland : holidays in Szafarnia, 1824-1825 -- The Decembrist revolt, 1825-1826 -- At the Warsaw High School for Music, 1826-1828 -- First trips abroad : Berlin and Vienna, 1828-1829 -- Konstancja Gladkowska : the distant beloved, 1829-1830 -- The Warsaw Uprising, 1830-1831 -- An exile in Paris, 1831-1833 --
Chopin
and the keyboard : the Raphael of the piano -- Maria Wodzinska : "My misfortune", 1834-1837 -- An English interlude, July 1837 -- Buffets and rewards, 1833-1838 -- Enter George Sand, 1836-1838 -- A winter in Majorca, 1838-1839 -- At Nohant, 1839 -- Growing fame, 1839-1843 -- The death of Mikolaj
Chopin
, 1844 -- A harvest of sorrows, 1845-1847 -- Deepening shadows, 1847-1848 -- Twilight in Britain, 1848 -- The death of
Chopin
, 1849 -- Epilogue -- Appendices. Liszt's questionnaire concerning his
Life
of
Chopin
; General catalogue of
Chopin
's works.
Summary:
"Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Fryderk
Chopin
: A
Life
and
Times
is a corrective work intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround
Chopin
, and an intimate look into a dramatic
life
. Of particular focus are
Chopin
's childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings; his oftentimes troubled romantic
life
with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years; and his untimely death at age thirty-nine, which inspired three thousand people to flock to the Madeleine Church in Paris for his funeral. Thorough and engaging, and written in highly readable prose,
Fryderyk
Chopin
wears its scholarship lightly: this is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover. Just as he did in his biography of Franz Liszt, Walker illuminated his subject with unprecedented clarity. This work brings to
life
one of the nineteenth century's most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists"--adapted from jacket.
Genre:
Biographies.
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