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Title: Chopin's Letters by Frederic Chopin ISBN: 0-486-25564-6 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Deeply poignant
Comment: Reading the early passages in Chopin's letters, one is almost heartbroken by the youth, the enthusiasm, the childlike good humor evident therein. Chopin at 17 was a wide-eyed kid from Warsaw with unparalleled musical talent and his whole life in front of him, the world apparently his oyster. To read his letters in subsequent years -- after the Russian invasion of Poland that stranded him in Paris; the abortive betrothal to Maria Wodzinska; the complex and finally tragic relationship with George Sand -- is to watch a man reach adulthood step by step. Though they contain only small, tantalizing glimpses of Chopin's opinions on music, the letters make for an effective counterpoint to his immortal compositions. The man who wrote the great Ballades and Scherzi was just a man like any other: he was annoyed at lazy servants, he unconsciously exploited his friends, he wanted to move in the circles of great aristocrats, he had provincial and prejudiced opinions. The lesson is banal, but true, and vividly made clear in these letters.
Rating: 5
Summary: a fascinating book
Comment: Reading Chopin's letters is a unique privilege we have today. No lover of Chopin should be without this book.
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Title: Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler ISBN: 0375409459 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer by Tad Szulc ISBN: 0306809338 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand by George Sand, Thelma Jurgrau ISBN: 0791405818 Publisher: State University of New York Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Chopin: Pianist and Teacher : As Seen by His Pupils by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Roy Howat ISBN: 0521367093 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large by Belinda Elizabeth Jack, Belinda Jack ISBN: 0679779183 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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