Paul Kildea

Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 1913and 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 Romanticismone that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393652239
• Artikelnr.: 59589438

Autorenporträt

Paul Kildea, artistic director of Musica Viva Australia, is a conductor, writer, and former artistic director of Wigmore Hall in London. He is the author of Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music and Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century.