Chopin : The Man and His Music

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huneker, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Ballades, piano.

Local Subjects:

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Ballades, piano.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Summary:

Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) was one of the most influential musicians of the 19th Century. Discovered as a child-prodigy pianist in his native Poland, he later travelled to France, where he remained after the Polish uprising of 1830-31. There he gave few public performances, but worked as composer and piano teacher. He later became a French citizen and conducted a stormy relationship with French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant). He died at 39 of pulmonary tuberculosis...

Contents:

Title; Contents; PART I-THE MAN; I. Poland:-Youthful Ideals; II. Paris:-In the Maelstrom; III. England, Scotland and Pere La Chaise; IV. The Artist; V. Poet and Psychologist; PART II-HIS MUSIC; VI. The Studies:-Titanic Experiments; VII. Moods in Miniature:-The Preludes; VIII. Impromptus and Valses; IX. Night and Its Melancholy Mysteries:-The Nocturnes; X. The Ballades:-Faery Dramas; XI. Classical Currents; XII. The Polonaises:-Heroic Hymns of Battle; XIII. Mazurkas:-Dances of the Soul; XIV. Chopin the Conqueror; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-308-1

OCLC:

476156276