Book Description This biography of Frédéric Chopin by his friend and fellow artist, Franz Liszt, offers a highly informed assessment of the Polish composer's musical legacy It's further enlivened by the author's personal acquaintance with Chopin's other friends, who included Sand, Balzac, Hugo, Berlioz, Delacroix, and Schumann Liszt surveys огчйф the technical brilliance as well as the poetry of Chopin's masterpieces, including the "Adagio" from Piano Concerto No 2 and Polonaise in F-sharp Minor He also chronicles Chopin's meteoric rise from Poland's child prodigy to the darling of Parisian salons who created works of lasting renown Download DescriptionHe was so entirely filled with the sentiments whose most perfect types he believed he had known in his own youth, with the ideas which it alone pleased him to confide to art; he contemplated art so invariably from the same point of view, that his artistic preferences could not fail to be influenced by his early impressions In the great models and CHEFS-D'OEUVRE, he only sought that which was in correspondence with his own soul That which stood in relation to it pleased him; that which resembled it not, scarcely obtained justice from him.  В шестой2005 г 144 стр ISBN 0486446255.