Format:
XII, 322 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
0198164955
Series Statement:
Master musicians
Content:
In this new study of Chopin's life and works, Jim Samson alternates chapters of biographical narrative with original and penetrating commentary on a unique musical legacy. Previous biographers have tended to concentrate on Chopin's life in France and to pay less attention to his formative years in Poland. Jim Samson redresses the balance by investigating the influence on Chopin of family, teachers, and the eventful political and cultural climate of Warsaw in his youth. He also takes an objective approach to Chopin's relations with George Sand, the worldly novelist who adopted a masculine name and persona. In reassessing Chopin's life, Samson has returned to primary and early secondary sources, including contemporary newspapers, correspondence, and memoirs and articles - some in manuscript - by Chopin's friends from the Warsaw years
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 311 - 314
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Chopin, Frédéric 1810-1849
;
Chopin, Frédéric 1810-1849
;
Biografie
Author information:
Samson, Jim 1946-
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