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Author: Corrie James ,
Dr Alan Walker
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9781665226608
ISBN 10: 1665226609
Publication Date: 27 November 2018
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"Packed with information and insightful analyses of Chopin's major works that will interest professional musicians, and even nonspecialists will be entranced by Walker's piquant storytelling and graceful prose.-- ""Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"" ""A magisterial portrait."" -- "" New York Times Book Review"" ""There is more than enough for everyone at this literary feast...Walker remains faithful to his subject, which only ten years of extensive research into vast archives of primary source material could manifest."" -- ""Christian Science Monitor"" ""Thorough and authoritative...technical in a sense yet free of jargon, easily understood, even perhaps by someone who has never laid hand on a piano keyboard."" -- "" Guardian (London)"" [Walker has] shed new light on many aspects of Chopin's life and cleared away a thicket of myths...Scrupulous as it is, this monumental biography is deeply engaging and enjoyable."" -- ""Economist (London)"""
Packed with information and insightful analyses of Chopin's major works that will interest professional musicians, and even nonspecialists will be entranced by Walker's piquant storytelling and graceful prose.-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review A magisterial portrait. -- New York Times Book Review There is more than enough for everyone at this literary feast...Walker remains faithful to his subject, which only ten years of extensive research into vast archives of primary source material could manifest. -- Christian Science Monitor Thorough and authoritative...technical in a sense yet free of jargon, easily understood, even perhaps by someone who has never laid hand on a piano keyboard. -- Guardian (London) [Walker has] shed new light on many aspects of Chopin's life and cleared away a thicket of myths...Scrupulous as it is, this monumental biography is deeply engaging and enjoyable. -- Economist (London)
Author Information
Corrie James has worked on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, radio, and audiobooks. She credits growing up listening to the BBC for her love of the spoken word. Her audiobooks include The Companion of Lady Holmeshire by Debra Brown and Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi. Dr. Alan Walker's definitive three-volume biography of Liszt, Franz Liszt, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award, among others. His writing has appeared in journals such as the Musical Quarterly, the Times Literary Supplement, and Times Educational Supplement. A professor emeritus at McMaster University, Walker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986 and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2012.
