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Fryderyk Chopin
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A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.
Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker's work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin.
Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin's childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin's romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years. Comprehensive and engaging, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: This is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover. Just as he did in his definitive biography of Liszt, Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity in this magisterial biography, bringing to life one of the 19th century's most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists.
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"Packed with information and insightful analyses of Chopin's major works that will interest professional musicians, and even nonspecialists will be entranced by Walker's piquant storytelling and graceful prose." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
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- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships.
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For a book about Mozart, not much Mozart.
- De LZ en 04-15-15
De: Paul Johnson
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Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Learned Musician
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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Has all the boring details...
- De L. Jensen en 05-14-19
De: Christoph Wolff
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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- De: Laura Tunbridge
- Narrado por: Laura Tunbridge
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him. Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge offers an alternative history of Beethoven's career, placing his music in contexts that shed light on why particular pieces are valued more than others, and what this tells us about his larger-than-life reputation.
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- De George en 07-04-22
De: Laura Tunbridge
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- De: Christoph Wolff
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.
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Language of the Spirit
- An Introduction to Classical Music
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces listeners to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music.
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- De Jay G en 06-14-18
De: Jan Swafford
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Beethoven
- Anguish and Triumph
- De: Jan Swafford
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 39 h y 7 m
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Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music.
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Huge book - musical reader appreciates best
- De DMgraphicGlass en 01-20-15
De: Jan Swafford
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Mozart
- A Life
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships.
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For a book about Mozart, not much Mozart.
- De LZ en 04-15-15
De: Paul Johnson
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- De: DK
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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Introduced with more than 90 biographical entries that trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each musical genius and their work. Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos, and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated as masterpieces today.
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- De PavFan en 02-21-22
De: DK
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The Life and Works of Chopin
- De: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrado por: Jeremy Siepmann
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Here, his life - from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, and his death at the age of 49 in Paris - is told with his music featuring prominently.
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Excellent Through and Through
- De Stephen en 07-16-03
De: Jeremy Siepmann
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Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion
- De: Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Bill Messenger
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation. Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.
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A Disappointingly Distorted, Myopic View Of Jazz
- De Parallax View en 08-18-13
De: Bill Messenger, y otros
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- De: Anthony Tommasini
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 20 h y 24 m
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In The Indispensable Composers, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. What does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? To make his case, Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time.
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A little disappointed.
- De Sher from Provo en 10-19-19
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- De: John Eliot Gardiner
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it.
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Brilliant book badly presented
- De David Steinsaltz en 03-22-15
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What to Listen for in Music
- De: Aaron Copland
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.
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Started common, ended uncommon
- De Sher from Provo en 06-05-24
De: Aaron Copland
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Opera
- The Definitive Story
- De: Alan Riding, Leslie Dunton-Downer
- Narrado por: Charles Armstrong
- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the lives of singers such as Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jonas Kaufmann. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom they collaborated to create the magical blend of words and music that make up opera.
De: Alan Riding, y otros
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Life & Works - Johannes Brahms
- De: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrado por: Jeremy Siepmann, Jasper Britton, Karen Archer, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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Brahms is one of the best loved yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful.
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Wonderful
- De Yvonne Angel en 11-03-21
De: Jeremy Siepmann
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Chasing Chopin
- A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
- De: Annik LaFarge
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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In this widely praised book, Annik LaFarge presents a very different Frédéric Chopin from the melancholy, sickly, Romantic figure that has predominated for so long. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent - and endlessly relevant - spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language; an autodidact who became a spiritually generous, trailblazing teacher; a stalwart patriot during a time of revolution, pandemic, and exile.
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I learned so much!
- De Tess369 en 02-18-21
De: Annik LaFarge
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Van Gogh
- The Life
- De: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 44 h y 55 m
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Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials. While drawing liberally from the artist's famously eloquent letters, they have also delved into hundreds of unpublished family correspondences, illuminating with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul. Naifeh and Smith bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist.
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Empathy for a True Artist
- De Sojourning Hope en 05-04-21
De: Steven Naifeh, y otros
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The Life and Works of Frédéric Chopin
- De: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrado por: Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, y otros
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Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerizing performers of his day, he lives on in his music – his waltzes, mazurkas, études, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos, and much more. Here, his life, from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, to his death at the age of 39 in Paris, is told with his music featuring prominently. We think of Chopin as a "frail, sheltered genius" but this forthright portrait demonstrates he was far more boisterous than that.
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Frederic Chopin
- De Mary Hawthorne en 03-24-17
De: Jeremy Siepmann
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The Cello Suites
- J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
- De: Eric Siblin
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the 18th century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-19th century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites in the present day.
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Bach Stories with Brilliance
- De RFC en 03-13-24
De: Eric Siblin
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- Miles
- 05-10-19
Excellent book, annoying reader
This is a well-reserached and well-written book undone by a most annoying reader who pauses to over-prounounces every "foreign" name and phrase. Are there not editors who listen to these things before committing a whole book to such a terrible presentation? Buy the book, it is great. I did finish it and kind of blocked out the terrible reading, but it should never have been recorded with Corrie James.
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- Meg
- 01-10-22
Very Comprehensive But…
Twenty three hours with this narrator is twenty two and a half hours too long! I am glad I stuck with this one because the book was so informative and thorough. It’s a wonderful view of Chopin’s life and a peak into some aspects of the era, the time’s classical music culture, and Polish culture. Supplemented with music streaming of compositions as they’re accounted in the book - a fabulous experience for a music novice such as myself! But if you have the time I’d recommend a print book.
This narration (and the written style of the book) is very formal, like sitting at tea with the Queen - for 23 hours! Zzzzzzzz. For no fault of hers, this is a narrator I’ll be avoiding now. A different narrator could have livened this up.
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- C. H. Patterson
- 04-27-21
What Language Was That?
No matter how interested you are in Chopin, this book will seem endless. It is little consolation to reflect that it at least is shorter than Dr. Walker's previous biography of Liszt, which spanned three weighty tomes -- if you bought the print edition of all three at once they'd have to deliver your purchase with a forklift.
The length becomes wearying in the audible book due largely to the frankly appalling job of reading by the performer. In a book filled with the names of people, places and works in Polish, Italian, French and German, this performer does an oppressively bad job of pronouncing any of the languages. I cut her some slack on the Polish, since no one not born to it can pronounce that language, but alas the performer can't manage any of the others either. Many of her attempts clearly have had re-recordings punched in, but it doesn't help. Particularly annoying is her rendition of the subject of the variations on the Zerlina/Don Giovanni duet from Mozart's opera, which she renders as "LAH ! - ci darem la mano." This, one of Chopin's first big hits, gets many references throughout the book.
The author is first of all a musicologist, and (with so many pages to fill) offers rather detailed musical analyses of many of Chopin's works. If you're not a musician none of this will make any sense to you. My wife and I listened to the book on a multi-day car trip: I'm a musician and she isn't. I could follow along, although there was no score to which to refer (which must have been present in the printed version), but my wife quickly got bored with it all, saying it was just gibberish. (Much musical analysis IS gibberish, but in the present case it seems at least to be competent.) My wife asked me if this was supposed to be a textbook, because it didn't sound quite like a biography. In respect to Dr. Walker's endurance at the typewriter keyboard I described it to her as "an appreciation."
Other fill-up-the-pages material detours you into mini-biographies of all Chopin's ancestors, people he knew, students he had and on and on.
I did find interesting the information about the difference between the pianos of the day (Chopin always used a Pleyel) and the much heavier, stiffer and louder concert grands of today. The author made clear that Chopin could coax untold divisions of nuance and texture from those instruments, and I could almost imagine how he must have sounded. Wish I'd heard it. (The author does not go into tunings that others have said were used commonly in those days, subtle differences from today's normal tempered scale that give each key its own characterestic.)
Without mentioning that it's even a matter of discussion in other accounts of Chopin's life, the author treats as given fact that (1) Chopin was not homosexual and in fact had a sexual relationship with George Sand until she cut him off (for reasons I couldn't quite puzzle out from the book), and (2) That the illness he suffered from most of his life was tuberculosis (evidently all his family had it and many of the people he knew had it -- the COVID of its day it seems). So there.
Don't try the written version unless you have wrists strong enough to stand many MANY hours of holding up the book. For a multi-day road trip the Audible version at least lets you travel with no fear the book will unexpectedly end when you're stuck in traffic. Indeed, you may have rather a lot of book left for your next journey.
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- Sher from Provo
- 02-26-21
Well researched and written
There is a lot of good information in this book about the life of this great composer, but I have to say, if I were not a musician, I would have given up on it. Any biographer needs to be thorough, and Dr. Walker was that! I enjoyed most of what he had to say, but even for me, the minutiae became a little overwhelming.
I have always thought Chopin’s music sounds fresh, almost as if he just sat down and improvised his music, and then quickly wrote it down before he forgot what he had played. So I was most surprised to find that he labored over every bit of music he wrote, even sometimes spending weeks on one measure. He was a perfectionist who asked that all of his unpublished music be burned upon his death, because he did not have a chance to go over and over it to make sure it was up to his high standards. His untimely death at age thirty-nine would have left a treasure-trove of music to be destroyed, had it not been for his sister, who did not allow that to happen, but rather made sure that those yet-to-be-published masterpieces be published. Blessings on your head, my dear! The world is all the richer for having all of Chopin’s music.
Like Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn, Fryderyk Chopin died way too soon. One cannot help but wonder what masterpieces were left unwritten, but we can all thank heaven for the ones we have. He truly left the world a better place.
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Very good but somewhat overwhelming
The biography is exhaustive and taught many things that I did not know about the composer's life. Influences on the music are well described. However, sometimes, the detail can overwhelm. How many times do we need to be told the name of the street in Paris where Chopin lived? There is a large section on musical technical analysis that is lost on those (including me) who are not professional performers or scholars. I like this in audio format where the listener can be pulled along. I might not have made it through the print version.
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- EvaPhiletaWright
- 08-26-20
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The title really should be: The Adventures and Debates of a Biographer of Fryderyk Chopin. the author is captured by the drama of the research, and frequently loses sight of the story of Chopin. The narrator's extreme efforts to correctly pronounce Polish names are a distraction from the story of the biographer, in turn a distraction from the promised story of Chopin himself. And, no music.
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- arsegas
- 05-23-22
Great biography but would benefit incredibly with music clips
Amazingly researched and written biography of Chopin, but I can’t help but wonder what it could have been if they had included music clips to take advantage of the Audible medium to truly bring this book to life.
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- Carpe Diem
- 02-09-19
This book is a masterpiece
This book is a masterpiece that I could not put down. Scholarly yet entertaining, detailed yet not excessively so, read beautifully with perfect pronunciation. His early life, the love of his father and family, details of his training with Józef Elsner were particularly interesting. I learned for the first time Chopin had a delightful sense of humor. His long affair with Sands was nuanced and detailed and the platonic devotion of Jane Sterling also detailed. Discussions of the music and how to perform it were the most meaningful to this musician. Long lived hoaxes are analyzed and put to rest. Thank you to Alan Walker who created this masterpiece for his depth of insight, even handed approach, and pure enjoyment to discover more about this compassionate, authentic, courtly well mannered, thoughtful, kind and ground breaking composer. Buy this enjoyable and insightful biography without a second thought.
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- Chris
- 05-24-22
Superb Bio
Thoughtful and well researched, I learned a great deal about Chopin's life and compositions, as well as the time period he lived in. The book also dispelled a lot of myths about his life and relationships.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-31-21
A wonderful book for pianists!
I’ve been playing the piano all my life. I was trained in Czerny’s “finger equalization school,” which was rejected by Chopin as this book pointed out. Dr. Walker’s detailed description shed a great deal of light on Chopin’s unique technique. As Czerny’s pedagogy remains prevalent in many parts of the world to this day, I found Chopin’s more natural—yet little-known—method incredibly eye-opening.
More specifically, after finishing the “Chopin and the Keyboard” chapter, I sat down at my piano and tried the new technique on Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat Major. The improvements were immediately palpable. Then I tried the Polonaise in C-sharp Minor using the new technique. Same—a particular problem that had bothered me for ten(!) years solved itself just like that.
This book has made me a better pianist. I only wish I had encountered it sooner.
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