Notes on Chopin

Gide, Andre

ISBN 10: 0806529016 / ISBN 13: 9780806529011

Published by Philosophical Library, New York, 1949

About this Item

8vo, 126 pp.

Seller Inventory # 119253

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes on Chopin
• Publisher: Philosophical Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1949
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806529016
• ISBN 13: 9780806529011
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: Later prt.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, André Gide André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin's "promenade of discoveries," Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gide's own poetic expression for the music he so loved.

About the Author

André Gide was born in Paris in 1869 and died there in 1951. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. His works include The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters, Strait is the Gate, the autobiography If It Die . . . , and three volumes of Journals. He also wrote plays, essays, short stories, and books of travel.