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Liszt's 'Chopin' - A New Edition (Paperback, New Ed)
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Liszt's 'Chopin' - A New Edition (Paperback, New Ed)
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Passionate and pioneering, Liszt's biography of Chopin flaunts its
author's celebrity while straddling the divide between the
scholarly and the popular. In this volume Meirion Hughes combines a
new translation of the first edition with an introduction that
places the work in its cultural and political context. In his
introduction Hughes explores the complex relationship between the
two composers, the highly charged political context in which the
book was written, and the discourse of cultural nationalism and
progressivism that dominates content. He argues that Chopin (put in
italics) was more than a tribute to an erstwhile friend, but rather
a polemic of national music rooted in the politics of that 'year of
revolutions', 1848-9. Hughes remains faithful to the original while
putting clarity before strict adherence to what is, by general
agreement, a quirky text. Controversial in its approach, Liszt's
'Chopin' challenges the long-held view of the memoir is as
lightweight, inaccurate portrait of its subject, but rather as one
of the most important and daring musical biographies of the
nineteenth century. -- .
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