Description
A life story of the Polish composer and wunderkind pianist Frédéric Chopin and a detailed study of his work written by American music writer and critic James Huneker. Chopin: the Man and His Music consists of: Part I. — The Man: Poland: — Youthful Ideals; Paris: — In the Maelstrom; England, Scotland and Fere La Chaise; The Artist; Poet and Psychologist; Part II. — His Music; The Studies: — Titanic Experiments; Moods in Miniature: the Preludes; Impromptus and Valses; Night and its Melancholy Mysteries: the Nocturnes; The Ballades: Faery Dramas; Classical Currents; The Polonaises: Heroic Hymns of Battle; Mazurkas: Dances of the Soul; and Chopin the Conqueror. James Gibbons Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A vibrant figure and a striving author, he was “an American with a great mission,” noted by his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to teach Americans of the great national attainments, local and European, of his days. James was born in Philadelphia. Obligated by his parents to pursue law, he was inclined into music and authorship but not into legal profession. He dreamed that someday he will become a concert pianist and a writer. When he was 21 years old, he stopped working in the office and Philadelphia ties and went to Paris, together with his expecting girlfriend, soon wife, informing his parents that he was leaving on the evening before the boat set sail. Having financial restraints as he was only given money from his parents, he learned piano from Leopold Doutreleau in Paris and reviewed the piano lesson of Frédéric Chopin’s student Georges Mathias. He also started a lasting engagement in European art and literature and was ecstatic to find a glimpse on his sojourn in the city of Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola along with Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. That year in a foreign country transformed his life.
Product ID: 9781776727162
Sku: S3-Z9SD-03X4
