Chopin

Frédéric Chopin died in 1849. He is universally regarded as the greatest of composers for the piano. And it has become possible to regard his brief, varied, tragic life as a whole, to tell it so that it stands in the full light of his time and ours, so that the biography and the music clarify each other. Herbert Weinstock has written a book of double interest and usefulness -- a full-length biography taking advantage of modern research, a history and analysis of every known surviving composition. For many years to come, this will be the standard and definite work on Chopin in English. -- From publisher's description.