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Author Walker, Alan, 1930- author.

Title Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times / Alan Walker.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CHOPIN    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. CHOPIN, F.    DUE 04-03-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY CHOPIN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CHOPIN    Check Shelf
 Granby, F.H. Cossitt Branch - Adult  B CHOPIN, FRYDERYK WAL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-CHOPIN WAL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.92 WAL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  786.2092 CHOPIN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B CHOPIN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  780.92 CHOPIN W    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxix, 727 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Summary A landmark biography of the Polish composer by one of the world's leading authorities on Chopin and his time0Based 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 is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English. Walker sets out 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 Walker's latest scholarly findings, and Chopin's romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years.00Comprehensive 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.
Subject Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. (OCoLC)fst00045258
Composers -- Biography.
Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians.
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
ISBN 9780374159061 (hardcover)
0374159068 (hardcover)
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