Notes on Chopin Andre Gide

Notes on Chopin

Author: Andre Gide
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Book Title
Notes on Chopin
Author
Andre Gide
ISBN
9780802205872
An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, Andr Gide Andr Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Fr d ric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin's "promenade of discoveries," Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gide's own poetic expression for the music he so loved.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Andre GidePublisher: Philosophical LibraryPublished: 06/01/1978ISBN: 9780802205872Pages: 128Weight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.44d
An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, Andr Gide Andr Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Fr d ric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin's "promenade of discoveries," Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gide's own poetic expression for the music he so loved.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Andre Gide
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Published: 06/01/1978
ISBN: 9780802205872
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.44d
An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, Andr Gide Andr Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Fr d ric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin's "promenade of discoveries," Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gide's own poetic expression for the music he so loved.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Andre Gide
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Published: 06/01/1978
ISBN: 9780802205872
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.44d