Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times

Walker, Alan, 1930- author.

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"Alan Walker's monumental Fryderk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. 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., it is a corrective work intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin, and an intimate look into a dram...

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Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849

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ISBN:

9780374159061

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxix, 727 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm

Notes:

Canadiana
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 Gładkowska : 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 Wodzińska : "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 Mikołaj 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

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