The Music of Chopin

by Jim Samson

Book Overview

The lasting popularity of Chopin's music has reached "from salon to slum." He captured and expressed the spirit of the age of Romanticism, its ardour and idealism, its longing and restlessness, its love of spontaneity, with an authority his contemporaries immediately recognized and which successive generations have admired and loved. Much of the Chopin literature in English is biographical, but this book is a critical study of the music itself and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198164025
• ISBN13: 9780198164029
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"