Chopin in Britain
Title | Chopin in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Willis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317166868 |
In 1848, the penultimate year of his life, Chopin visited England and Scotland at the instigation of his aristocratic Scots pupil, Jane Stirling. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Paris. The following autumn he was dead. Despite the fascination the composer continues to hold for scholars, this brief but important period, and his previous visit to London in 1837, remain little known. In this richly illustrated study, Peter Willis draws on extensive original documentary evidence, as well as cultural artefacts, to tell the story of these two visits and to place them into aristocratic and artistic life in mid-nineteenth-century England and Scotland. In addition to filling a significant hole in our knowledge of the composer’s life, the book adds to our understanding of a number of important figures, including Jane Stirling and the painter Ary Scheffer. The social and artistic milieux of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh are brought to vivid life.
New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Chopin
Title | New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Chopin PDF eBook |
Author | Ates Orga |
Publisher | Omnibus Press |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2015-03-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0857128477 |
Chopin's Swansong
Title | Chopin's Swansong PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Cobbe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Keyboard instruments |
ISBN | 9780953820337 |
Fryderyk Chopin
Title | Fryderyk Chopin PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Alan Walker |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374714371 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018. "A magisterial portrait." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book Review A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time 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., 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. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is 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, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years. Comprehensive and engaging, and written in highly readable prose, the biography 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 definitive biography of Liszt, Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity in this magisterial biography, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists.
Life of Chopin
Title | Life of Chopin PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Liszt |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1613105460 |
Frédéric Chopin
Title | Frédéric Chopin PDF eBook |
Author | William Smialek |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2015-06-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135839042 |
Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.
Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
Title | Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kildea |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0393652238 |
“An exceptionally fine book: erudite, digressive, urbane and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Frédéric Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with Chopin’s Mallorquin pianino, which the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska rescued from an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in 1913—and which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Paul Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.