Chopin in Paris · The Life and Times of a Romantic Composer

Author: Tad Szulc [USA]
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book introduces the brilliant life story of the 19th-century musician Chopin in a romantic era. He lived in Paris for eighteen years, almost half of his short life, shining in the center of many stars. These geniuses formed an era—Victor Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, Liszt, Berlioz, and of course George Sand—a rebellious female writer who became Chopin's lover and protector. The author, with rich imagination and insight, widely draws on diaries, memoirs, correspondence, and other materials to depict the composer's love life and creative journey in Paris, revealing Chopin's profound inner world and complex romantic experiences with George Sand.