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After Chopin died in Paris in his fortieth year, on October 17, 1849, Liszt, who had been his close friend, was moved to create a literary monument to his great Polish contemporary. Early in 1852 a book appeared in the French capital, with the simple title "F. Chopin" by the author "F. Liszt." In the hundred-odd years since, the biographical literature on Chopin has grown in proportion to his posthumous fame; yet Liszt's volume remains unique and...

"An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, André Gide. André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin's "promenade of discoveries,"...

An account of the composer's career, travels, loves, and personality traces his life from a precocious Polish childhood, through his early concert successes and his relationships with Gladkowska and Sand, to his broken final years.

From the Blurb: Against the tumultuous background of Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century-political revolution and social upheaval-this beguiling biography presents the young Polish genius (and patriot) who arrived in Paris in 1831, at the age of twenty-one, and was instantly acclaimed and accepted by its circle of brilliant artists, poets and aristocrats. The tide of Romanticism was at its height-in literature, painting, manners and...

A number of these studies deal with various aspects of the physical coordination the pianist must achieve in order to be able to use his full potential for virtuosity and musical continuity. They were written by a pianist who hadsearched for more effective teaching tools and had developed a uniq meaningful analysis of the nature of this coordination.