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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times Audiobook
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A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.
Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years.
Comprehensive and engaging, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: this is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover. Just as he did in his definitive biography of Liszt, Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity in this magisterial biography, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists.
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“There is more than enough for everyone at this literary feast…Walker remains faithful to his subject, which only ten years of extensive research into vast archives of primary source material could manifest.”
— Christian Science Monitor
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“A magisterial portrait.”
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“Thorough and authoritative…technical in a sense yet free of jargon, easily understood, even perhaps by someone who has never laid hand on a piano keyboard.”
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"[Walker has] shed new light on many aspects of Chopin’s life and cleared away a thicket of myths…Scrupulous as it is, this monumental biography is deeply engaging and enjoyable.”
— Economist (London)
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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About Corrie James
Corrie James has worked on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, radio, and audiobooks. She credits growing up listening to the BBC for her love of the spoken word. Her audiobooks include The Companion of Lady Holmeshire by Debra Brown and Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi.