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Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions (Hardcover) Loot Price: R489
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Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions (Hardcover): Annik...

Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions (Hardcover)

Annik LaFarge

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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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Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2020
Authors: Annik LaFarge
Dimensions: 213 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-8871-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
LSN: 1-5011-8871-2
Barcode: 9781501188718

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