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-Revolutionnary Method to learn and practice Chopin's Etudes, for intermediate pianists--Méthode révolutionnaire pour apprendre et jouer les Etudes de Chopin-«24 Prétudes after Chopin» are 24 pre-etudes, 24 preparatory studies to those of Chopin, composed to raise the following bet : «To play the "Prétudes" will allow to learn more easily the genuine "Chopin's Etudes".»Les «24 Prétudes d'après Chopin» sont 24 pré-études, 24 études préparatoires à celles de Chopin, composées pour relever le pari suivant: «Jouer les "Prétudes" permettra d'apprendre plus facilement les véritables "Études de Chopin".».Each Etude is reduced while keeping both the musical gesture and the shape of these masterpieces,without adding nor deducting the slightest measure from it.Elles réduisent la difficulté pianistique de chaque Étude tout en conservant le geste musical et la forme, c'est-à-dire en sauvegardant le rythme harmonique de chaque Étude, sans y ajouter ni en retrancher la moindre mesure.

- How to practice and play properly Chopin's 24 Etudes for piano ? - Comment travailler et bien jouer les 24 Etudes de Chopin pour piano ? Before being able to play as well as: Avant de pouvoir les jouer comme: Richter, Horowitz, Argerich

-Revolutionnary Method to learn and practice Chopin's Etudes, for intermediate pianists--Méthode révolutionnaire pour apprendre et jouer les Etudes de Chopin-«24 Prétudes after Chopin» are 24 pre-etudes, 24 preparatory studies to those of Chopin, composed to raise the following bet : «To play the "Prétudes" will allow to learn more easily the genuine "Chopin's Etudes".»Les «24 Prétudes d'après Chopin» sont 24 pré-études, 24 études préparatoires à celles de Chopin, composées pour relever le pari suivant: «Jouer les "Prétudes" permettra d'apprendre plus facilement les véritables "Études de Chopin".».Each Etude is reduced while keeping both the musical gesture and the shape of these masterpieces,without adding nor deducting the slightest measure from it.Elles réduisent la difficulté pianistique de chaque Étude tout en conservant le geste musical et la forme, c'est-à-dire en sauvegardant le rythme harmonique de chaque Étude, sans y ajouter ni en retrancher la moindre mesure.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018. "A magisterial portrait." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book Review A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years. Comprehensive and engaging, and written in highly readable prose, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: this is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover. Just as he did in his definitive biography of Liszt, Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity in this magisterial biography, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists.

Nearly 300 letters reveal Chopin as both man and artist and illuminate his fascinating world — Europe of the 1830s and 1840s. "Delightful gossip . . . merry rather than malicious . . . engagingly witty." — Books. Preface. Index.

Chopin made the piano a solo instrument and gave it an entirely new expression. In this beautifully written account of Chopin’s life, students learn the ideas behind the composer’s art, the social, historical, and cultural events that influenced him and his work, and Chopin’s pivotal role in musical history.

“An exceptionally fine book: erudite, digressive, urbane and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Frédéric Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with Chopin’s Mallorquin pianino, which the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska rescued from an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in 1913—and which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Paul Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.

Fryderyk Chopin’s career is intricately entwined with the piano. Although he made forays into orchestral and chamber work, the vast majority of Chopin’s pieces feature the piano. While his relatively brief life shortened his potential contribution as a composer, the originality, richness, and quality of his work is undeniable. His harmonies were often surprising, the rhythms flexible, and the music dramatic. In Experiencing Chopin: A Listener’s Companion,Christine Lee Gengaro surveys Chopin’s position as a composer at a time when the piano stood at the center of musical and social life. Throughout, she shines a spotlight on Chopin and his music, which illuminated the Romantic period in which he lived, the social and artistic climate that surrounded him, and the importance of the individual artist at a time of political foment. Gengaro considers the different genres among Chopin’s works, linking each to the historical, social, and biographical issues that shaped them.