Chopin
Subtitle: the man and his music.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849
Description: Frédéric Chopin died in 1849. He is universally regarded as the greatest of composers for the piano. And it has become possible to regard his brief, varied, tragic life as a whole, to tell it so that it stands in the full light of his time and ours, so that the biography and the music clarify each other. Herbert Weinstock has written a book of double interest and usefulness -- a full-length biography taking advantage of modern research, a history and analysis of every known surviving composition. For many years to come, this will be the standard and definite work on Chopin in English. -- From publisher's description.
Notes: "The music": p. [165]-328. Bibliography: 331-336.