Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times

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"Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk 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 Yor...

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Main Author: Walker, Alan, 1930- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Chopin, Frédéric, > 1810-1849.
Chopin, Frédéric > 1810-1849.
Chopin, Frédéric, > 1810-1849
Composers > Biography.
Pianists > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Pianists.
Composers.
Composers > Biography
Pianists > Biography
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
Table of 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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