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Can anyone recommend a good Chopin biography? #528335 07/15/04 09:24 AM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 254 Hepcat OP Full Member
OP Hepcat Full Member Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 254	I'm going to get this book and this book , but I would like to read a bio first. Thanks!

Re: Can anyone recommend a good Chopin biography? #528336 07/15/04 11:11 AM
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Joyce_dup1 Full Member J Joined: May 2002 Posts: 194 Chicago	Author Szulc, Tad. Title Chopin in Paris : the life and times of the great composer Pub.info. New York : Scribner, c1998. Interesting read.

Re: Can anyone recommend a good Chopin biography? #528337 07/15/04 03:32 PM
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Defo Full Member D Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 72 England	It's not a biography, but it's full of good anecdotal information fromt he master himself as well as his pupils: 'Chopin: Pianist and Teacher', by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger

Re: Can anyone recommend a good Chopin biography? #528338 07/16/04 05:21 AM
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decibel101 Full Member D Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 293 Manhattan	chopin's funeral very intersting! About Me

Re: Can anyone recommend a good Chopin biography? #528339 07/16/04 10:58 PM
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Ted2 500 Post Club Member T Joined: May 2002 Posts: 790 Auckland, New Zealand	I have the one by Marek and Gordon-Smith. It seems very good, very down-to-earth to me but I haven't read any others. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" - Aleister Crowley

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