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Author: Frederic Chopin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-03
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0486319520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly 300 letters reveal Chopin as both man and artist and illuminate his fascinating world — Europe of the 1830s and 1840s. "Delightful gossip . . . merry rather than malicious . . . engagingly witty." — Books. Preface. Index.
Author: Alfred Christlieb Kalischer
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015993099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Maurycy Karasowski
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frédéric Chopin
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788364823190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maurycy Karasowski
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-12-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1316101606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English paperback edition of the unique collection of documents which reveal Chopin as teacher and interpreter of his own music. From the accounts of his pupils, acquaintances and contemporaries, together with his own writing, we gain valuable insight into Chopin's pianistic and stylistic practice, his teaching methods and his aesthetic beliefs. The documents are divided into two categories: those concerning technique and style, two notions inseparable in Chopin's mind, and those concerning the interpretation of Chopin's works. Extensive appendix material presents Chopin's essay 'Sketch for a method', as well as annotated scores belonging to Chopin's pupils and acquaintances, and personal accounts of Chopin's playing as experienced by his contemporaries: composers and pianists, pupils and friends, writers and critics. The statements of Chopin's own students in diaries, letters and reminiscences, written, dictated or conveyed by word of mouth, provide the bulk of these accounts. Throughout the book detailed annotations add a valuable scholary dimension, creating an indispensable guide to the authentic performance of Chopin's piano works.
Author: Paul Kildea
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0393652238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An exceptionally fine book: erudite, digressive, urbane and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Frédéric Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with Chopin’s Mallorquin pianino, which the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska rescued from an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in 1913—and which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Paul Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.
Author: William Smialek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1135581436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImportant books, articles, reviews, and theses on Fr d ric Chopin (1810-1849) in Western European languages and in Polish are cited; selected references in languages such as Russian, Czech, and Japanese are included as well. The Chopin legend is considered through studies of the performance tradition and a discography of recent and reissued recordings. Short essays outline the historiography of Chopin research and the current direction of scholarship. Index.
Author: Alfred Cortot
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0486316351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfile by a legendary conductor and performer explores the composer's works and concert performances plus his roles as teacher and Polish nationalist, relationships with Liszt and Sand, chronic illness, and tormented, sensitive nature.
