Biographies of Frédéric Chopin
By the first decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published.[1]
Full biographies[edit]
Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include:
- Liszt, Franz (1852). F. Chopin (in French). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.[2][3]
- — (1880). Life of Chopin. Translated by Cook, Martha Walker [at Wikisource] (4th ed.) – via Project Gutenberg.
- — (1890). F. Chopin (in French) (4th ed.). Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel – via Project Gutenberg.
- Karasowski, Maurycy (first name in German: Moritz):
- — (1877). Friedrich Chopin: Sein Leben, seine Werke und Briefe (in German). Dresden: Ries. (2 vols.)
- — (1878). Friedrich Chopin: Sein Leben und seine Briefe (in German) (2nd, reworked and enlarged ed.). Dresden: Ries.[4]
- — (1879). Frederick Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works. Translated by Hill, Emily. London: Reeves. (2 vols.)[4]
- Niecks, Frederick (1888). Frederick Chopin: As a Man and Musician. Novello, Ewer & Co.[5][3]
- Zamoyski, Adam (1979). Chopin: A Biography. London: Collins. ISBN 0002160897. OCLC 5948326.
- — (1980). Chopin: A New Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 0385135971. OCLC 639395617.[3]
- — (2010). Chopin: Prince of the Romantics (revised digital ed.). London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780007351824. OCLC 891811930.
- Walker, Alan (2018). Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374714376.[1][6]
Partial biographies[edit]
Book-length biographies concentrating on a limited number of episodes in Chopin's life include:
- Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-82458-1.[7]
- Eisler, Benita (2007) [2003]. Chopin's Funeral. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 9780307425256.[8]
Collections of primary documents[edit]
Bundled primary documents, such as letters and diaries, pertaining to Chopin's life include:[9][10]
- Chopin's Letters (1931).
- Based on Henryk Opieński's collection
- Translations by Ethel Voynich
- Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin (1962).
- Based on Bronisław Edward Sydow's collection
- Translations by Arthur Hedley
- Chopin's Polish Letters (2016). ISBN 9788364823190.
- Published by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
- Translations by David Frick
References[edit]
- ^ a b Pekacz 2019.
- ^ John Rink and Jim Samson, eds. (2006). Chopin Studies 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521034333, p. 23.
- ^ a b c Smaliek & Trochimczyk 2015
- ^ a b Helman-Bednarczyk 2016, p. 18.
- ^ "Review: Niecks's Chopin". The Musical Times. 30 (552): 73–75. 1 February 1889. doi:10.2307/3359954. JSTOR 3359954.
- ^ da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna. "An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin". The New York Times. 19 November 2018.
- ^ Driver 1998.
- ^ Miller 2003.
- ^ Helman-Bednarczyk 2016, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Milewski 2019.
Sources[edit]
- Driver, Paul (5 April 1998). "Heartless Romantic: A biography of Chopin finds the dark side of the composer". The New York Times.
- Helman-Bednarczyk, Zofia (December 2016). "The New Edition of Chopin's Correspondence". Musicology Today. 13 (1). De Gruyter Open: 3–20. doi:10.1515/muso-2016-0009.
- Milewski, Barbara (April 2019). "Book Review: Fryderyk Chopin, Chopin's Polish Letters, trans. David Frick". Nineteenth-Century Music Review. 16 (1). Cambridge University Press: 108–113. doi:10.1017/S147940981700074X. S2CID 188813839.
- Miller, Lucasta (21 June 2003). "The composer who never grew up". The Guardian.
- Pekacz, Jolanta (April 2019). "Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. By Alan Walker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 727 pp. ISBN 9780374159061". CAML Review. 47 (1): 51–52.
- Smaliek, William; Trochimczyk, Maja (2015). "Biographies". Fréderic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide (2nd ed.). New York and London: Routledge. pp. 7–13, 96–105. ISBN 9780415998840.