Annik LaFarge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxix, 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The Frédéric Chopin Annik LaFarge presents here is not the melancholy, sickly, romantic figure so often portrayed. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language, an autodidact who became a spiritually generous, trailblazing teacher, a stalwart patriot during a time of revolution and exile. In Chasing Chopin she follows in his footsteps during the three years, 1837-1840, when...