CHOPIN PRINCE OF THE ROMANTICS
Written by Adam Zamoyski
Published by Harper Press
in 2010
ISBN: 9780007341849
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CHOPIN PRINCE OF THE ROMANTICS
Written by Adam Zamoyski.
Stock no. 1331092
Circa.
2010.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
In this biography, Zamoyski links Chopin with Bach and Mozart rather than his contemporary Romantics. Zamoyski sees Chopin as an insecure 18th century man lost in the Romantic Age. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. 356 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780007341849. Second printing. Spine bumped, spine leans to one side a little. Contents are lightly browned but otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is edge creased and sunned to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 A Prodigy Restrained
- 2 School Days
- 3 Musical Genius
- 4 Adolescent Passions
- 5 Vienna
- 6 Romantic Paris
- 7 Pianist a la Mode
- 8 Second Love
- 9 Art and Politics
- 10 Love Above All
- 11 Conjugal Life
- 12 The Church of Chopin
- 13 The End of the Affair
- 14 An Ugly Fracas
- 15 London and Scotland
- 16 The Jealousy of Heaven
- Appendix A: List of Chopin's Work
- Appendix B: The Case of the 'Chopin-Potocka Letters'
- Notes
- Sources
- Index