Chopin in Paris
Subtitle: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780306809330
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Biography: general; Composers & musicians; Music; Composers; Music Of The 19th Century; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - General; Biography/Autobiography; Genres & Styles - Classical; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Composers & Musicians - General; 1810-1849; Biography; Chopin, Frederic,; Chopin, Frâedâeric,
First sentence: LATE IN THE AFTERNOON of the last Tuesday of September, 1831, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, just six months past his twenty-first birthday, entered the great city of Paris, determined to conquer it-and quietly prepared to die there long before reaching old age.