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Chopin : prince of the romantics / Adam Zamoyski.
- Title
- Chopin : prince of the romantics / Adam Zamoyski.
- Author
- Zamoyski, Adam
- Publication
- London : HarperPress, 2010.
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| Text | Request in advance | ML410.C54 Z342 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 356 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-348) and index.
- Contents
- A prodigy restrained -- School days -- Musical genius -- Adolescent passions -- Vienna -- Romantic Paris -- Pianist à la mode -- Second love -- Art and politics -- Love above all -- Conjugal life -- The church of Chopin -- The end of the affair -- An ugly fracas -- London and Scotland -- The jealousy of heaven.
- ISBN
- 9780007341849 (hbk.)
- 0007341849 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010413869
- OCLC
- 458729529
- SCSB-10449223
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library