Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music

by Paul Kildea

Book Overview

In November 1838, Fr?d?ric Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognized as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism: his twenty-four Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039365222X
• ISBN13: 9780393652222
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.3"