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Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician Vol.1
"Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician" through Frederick Niecks is a biographical and analytical study. Some stories are brutal and weird, while others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. As the title character is so indulgent, readers are forced to keep reading to find out what happens next. This work of story offers a comprehensive examination of Frédéric Chopin's life, personality, and creative talent as a Romantic-era composer and pianist. Niecks, a musicologist and historian, delves into Chopin's history, providing an intriguing portrait of the man behind the music. He recounts Chopin's youth in Poland, his musical schooling in Warsaw, and his subsequent travels and life in Paris, where he rose to fame and reputation as a composer and performer. One of the book's strengths is Niecks' thorough examination of Chopin's compositions. He dissects Chopin's music's structure, manner, and depth of feeling, revealing crucial insights
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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
A Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year
A landmark biography of the Polish composer bygd one of the world’s leading authorities on kompositör 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, Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times fryst vatten the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English. Walker sets out to skingra the many myths and legends that continue to surround kompositör. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and ungdom in Poland, which are brought into line with Walker’s latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years.
Comprehensive and fängslande, and written in highly readable prose, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: this fryst vatten a book suited as much for the
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Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin, in PolishFryderyk Franciszek Chopin (the surname is pronounced [ˈʂɔpɛn̪] in Polish; [ʃɔpɛ̃] in French; and usually /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; 1 March 1810[1] – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French-Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.
Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his musical education there. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish November 1830 Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of the Polish Great Emigration. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. From 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French woman writerGeorge Sand. For most of his life, Chopin suffered f