{"product_id":"chopin-the-man-and-his-music-volume-1-dover-books-on-music-composers-9780486216874","title":"Chopin: The Man and His Music (Volume 1) (Dover Books On Music: Composers)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Gibbon Huneker (18571921) was a distinguished American newspaper critic  an essayist  and a prolific author. His writing style is remarkable  unrestrained  informal  full of brilliant insight  and this style plus Hunekers wide knowledge of art and literature as well as music has kept his literacy work alive. Chopin: The Man and His Music reflects the intimate  thorough knowledge of Chopins music that Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the great Polish composer whose music he adored. The book is divided into two parts. The first treats Chopins life  his youth in Poland  his emigration to Paris  the famous George Sand episode  his sickness and death  and comments on Chopin as a teacher and as a pianist and performer. The second part discusses the entire body of Chopins music  piece by piece. Huneker notes his own overall impression of the individual compositions as well as the impressions of Schumann  George Sand  Chopins biographer Frederick Niecks  many of the great pianists  and others. He directly compares differing editions of Chopins tudes  Preludes  Nocturnes  Mazurkas  Polonaises  Sonatas  and other works edited by von Blow  Kullak  Riemann  Mikuli  and Godowsky in their detailed treatment of fingering  phrasing  pedaling  tempo indication  and so forth. Hunekers entire work is reprinted here unchanged  thoroughly edited in running footnotes by Herbert Weinstock to correct the exuberant Hunekers inaccuracies and to add information that modern musical scholarship has unearthed. Weinstock has also provided an engrossing introductory essay on Huneker  and has amplified the bibliography to include modern books and articles on Chopin. A classic in musical biography and commentary  this work is unsurpassed for sympathetic understanding and insight into Chopins life and music. It will interest equally music students  pianists  and music lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924396990517,"sku":"ByrdShop_048621687X","price":63.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chopin-the-man-and-his-music-volume-1-dover-books-on-music-composers-9780486216874","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}