How to Play Chopin

Author: (Polish) Smentkina, translated by Liang Quanbing, Yao Manhua
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The book "How to Play Chopin - An Attempt to Answer Questions" by Professor Smentkina, a distinguished Polish expert on Chopin, provides an incisive and insightful analysis of some of Chopin's important works. In addition to explaining her interpretive methods, she offers readers great inspiration from the musical content to the performance techniques. Moreover, she calls on pianists to deeply understand Chopin's time, the background of Chopin's works, and to become familiar with the culture, customs, history, and psychology of Polish nationality in order to comprehend the Polish spirit and soul.