“Introducing Chopin” tells the story of Frederic Chopin, the outstanding pianist and brilliant composer of music for the piano who was born in 19th-century Poland but enjoyed his greatest success in Paris.
Chopin’s wrote pieces for the pianoforte that were sensitive, tender, amorous, lyrical and melancholy by turn, making him the main representation of the ideal of the “poet in music.” In this juvenile biography Roland Vernon not only provides biographical details but also emphasises how Chopin’s music was full of strong feeling, representative of the age of the Romantics. Within that context it seems rather ironic that he should fall victim to an incurable illness.
This series looks at the influences and historical events that shaped the lives of the great composers from Bach and Beethoven to Gershwin and Stravinsky
