Adam zamoyski chopin a biography
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Chopin: Prince of the Romantics
A new edition of Adam Zamoyski’s definitive biography of Chopin, first published in 1979 and unavailable in English for many years.
Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered and cherished. And few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them.
Published to coincide with the bicentenary of Chopin's birth, Adam Zamoyski's compelling new biography cuts through the mass of anecdote and myth that has sprung up around the composer's life and the ebullient and striking personalities of Romantic Paris among whom he lived, including Liszt, Berlioz, Victor Hugo and George Sand, in search of the real Chopin.
Zamoyski brings to the subject an unrivalled knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the composer's native Poland as well as of the France in which he spent most of his creative life. He has scoured the archives of Warsaw, Krakow, Paris and London in his quest for the truth, and has based his account exclusively on primary sources and contemporary accounts.
The result is a biography of authority, perception and wit. Chopin emerges from the sugary romantic mist in which he has been shrouded as a real, palpable personality, a man of intelligence and humour; in music an inn
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Chopin : a biography / Adam Zamoyski
- Bib ID:
- 2844409
- Format:
- Picture perfect
- Author:
- Zamoyski, Adam
- Description:
- London : Author, 1979
- 336 p., [8] leaves of plates : carry out. 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0002160897
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "List appreciated works confine chronological order": p. 285-294.
- Bibliography: p. 320-324.
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Chopin: A New Biography
So I appreciated the author's clear prose style, thoroughly researched as it was but at the same time I found it somewhat tedious to read and a bit dry because he often goes into great detail about day to day events in the composer's life and sprinkles it liberally with quotes taken from letters of Chopin's friends and contemporaries. I am glad I have read this none the less, as it gave me a clearer picture of Chopin and his life, whose music I love.
The book has corrected some of the mistaken beliefs I had about Chopin. I didn't realize that he had made quite a name for himself in his youth in Poland. He was born there and moved away at age 19 never to return, though he did make initial plans to return a couple of times. Those plans never materialized. But before leaving Poland he had left quite a mark on the musical scene of that country. I had always believ