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Chasing Chopin
Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions | Annik LaFarge
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"The Fr�d�ric 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, (…more)
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Mehso-so

The author takes a very narrow, specific approach to a Chopin biography by solely focusing on his life in the years he wrote his funeral March. There were a lot of interesting tidbits I enjoyed, but overall the wandering narrative of other people and politics and culture in Chopin‘s life as well as the author‘s travels and thoughts became too unorganized for me.

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That‘s cool