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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Alan Walker's monumental Fryderk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., it is a corrective work intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin, and an intimate look into a dramatic...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Frédéric Chopin Annik LaFarge presents here is not the melancholy, sickly, romantic figure so often portrayed. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent 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 and exile. In Chasing Chopin she follows in his footsteps during the three years, 1837-1840, when...
13) Frederic Chopin
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century Polish composer who invented beautiful music for the piano and new ways of playing it.
15) Frederic Chopin
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and achievements of Frederic Chopin in the context of his historical period.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Harry Middleton has possession of a priceless score by Frederic Chopin that puts him and thousands of Americans in grave danger. Hidden amidst measures and notes is a secret that others are willing to kill for, and Middleton must work toward discovering the mystery of the manuscript while also protecting his life. Jeffery Deaver wrote the first and last chapters, while fifteen thriller authors each wrote one chapter.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In November 1838, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognized as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism: his twenty-four Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution...
18) Watchlist
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"From International Thriller Writers, comes Watchlist: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrilling cast of characters in one major suspenseful package. 'The Chopin Manuscript' and 'The Copper Bracelet' are collaborations of some of the world's greatest thriller writers, including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plots in motion. The other authors each wrote a chapter and...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. What's more, she declares that Chopin has dictated dozens of compositions to her, to allow the world to hear the sublime music he was unable to create in his own short life. Many dismiss her story as a ridiculous hoax, while others swear that the music has the same beauty and refinement as the work of the dead master. Ludvik...