Chopin the man and his music, by James Huneker (Still Image)

Chopin the man and his music, by James Huneker

Huneker, James, 1857-1921

viii, 415 p. front. (port.) 20 cm

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker.

James Gibbons Huneker (1857 - 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin de Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time.

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Bibliography: p. 391-396

1900

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849

b30539055

ML410.C54 H9

New York, C. Scribner's Sons,

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