Liszt's Chopin

by Meirion Hughes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719083516
• ISBN13: 9780719083518
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"