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037    |bFarrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy,
       Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600|nSAN 631-5011 
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100 1  Walker, Alan,|d1930-|eauthor. 
245 10 Fryderyk Chopin :|ba life and times /|cAlan Walker. 
250    First edition. 
263    1810 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2018. 
300    xxix, 727 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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.   
520 8  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. 
600 10 Chopin, Frédéric,|d1810-1849. 
600 17 Chopin, Frédéric,|d1810-1849.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00045258 
650  0 Composers|vBiography. 
650  7 Composers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00871620 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians.
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655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
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