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

Kildea, Paul

ISBN 10: 039365222X / ISBN 13: 9780393652222

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

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In November 1838, Frédéric 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 the modern instrument), so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, Juan Bauza, which remained in their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left.Chopin s PianoChopin s PianoIn scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated between generations.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Paul Kildea is a conductor and writer who formerly served as artistic director of Wigmore Hall in London. He is the author of Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century.

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Titel: Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Hardcover
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