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By the first decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published.
Full biographies
Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include:
- Liszt, Franz (1852). F. Chopin (in French). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. At Gutenberg.org: 4th edition (1890); English translation by Martha Walker Cook [wikisource; d]: Life of Chopin (4th edition, 1880)
{{cite book}}: External link in|postscript= - Zamoyski, Adam (1979). Chopin: A Biography. London: Collins. ISBN 0002160897.
- — (1980). Chopin: A New Biography (1st USA ed.). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 0385135971.
- — (2010). Chopin: Prince of the Romantics (revised digital ed.). London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780007351824.
- Walker, Alan (2018). Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374714376.
Partial biographies
Book-length biographies concentrating on a limited number of episodes in Chopin's life include:
- Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-82458-1.
- Eisler, Benita (2007) . Chopin's Funeral. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 9780307425256.
Collections of primary documents
Bundled primary documents, such as letters and diaries, pertaining to Chopin's life include:
- Chopin's Letters (1931).
- Based on Henryk Opieński's collection
- Translations by Ethel Voynich
- Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin (1962).
- Based on Bronisław Edward Sydow's collection
- Translations by Arthur Hedley
- Chopin's Polish Letters (2016). ISBN 9788364823190.
- Published by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
- Translations by David Frick
References
- ^ Pekacz 2019.
- John Rink [d] and Jim Samson, eds. (2006). Chopin Studies 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521034333, p. 23.
- OCLC 5948326
- OCLC 639395617
- OCLC 891811930
- Driver 1998.
- Miller 2003.
- Milewski 2017.
Sources
- Driver, Paul (5 April 1998). "Heartless Romantic: A biography of Chopin finds the dark side of the composer". The New York Times.
- Milewski, Barbara (10 November 2017). "Book Review: Fryderyk Chopin, Chopin's Polish Letters, trans. David Frick (Warsaw: Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2016). 552 pp. €60,00". Nineteenth-Century Music Review. 16 (1). Cambridge University Press (published April 2019): 108–113. doi:10.1017/S147940981700074X.
- Miller, Lucasta (21 June 2003). "The composer who never grew up". The Guardian.
- Pekacz, Jolanta (April 2019). "Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. By Alan Walker. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2018. 727 pp. ISBN 9780374159061". CAML Review. 47 (1): 51–52.
Further reading
- Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide by William Smialek and Maja Trochimczyk (2nd edition: 2015). ISBN 9781135839048.
External links
- Chopin Biography at Fryderyk Chopin Institute website.
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