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Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions (Hardcover)
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Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions (Hardcover)
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The Frederic 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 he composed his iconic "Funeral March"-using its composition
story to illuminate the key themes of his life: a deep attachment
to his Polish homeland; his complex relationship with writer George
Sand; their harrowing but consequential sojourn on Majorca; the
rapidly developing technology of the piano, which enabled his
unique tone and voice; social and political revolution in 1830s
Paris. Each of these threads-musical, political, social,
personal-is woven through the "Funeral March" in Chopin's Opus 35
sonata, a melody so famous it's known around the world even to
people who know nothing about classical music. The result is an
engrossing, page-turning work of musical discovery and an artful
portrayal of a man whose work and life continue to inspire artists
and cultural innovators in astonishing ways.
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