Adam zamoyski chopin a biography on barack

Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered and cherished. And few had had so much sentimental nonsense written about them.

Adam Zamoyski’s compelling new biography cuts through the mass of anecdote and myth that has sprung up around the composer’s life and the ebullient and striking personalities of Romantic Paris among whom he lived, which included Liszt, Berlioz, Victor Hugo and George Sand, in search of the real Chopin.

Among recent attempts, Adam Zamoyski's Chopin, Prince of the Romantics, has much to be recommended.

Zamoyski brings to the subject an unrivalled knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the composer’s native Poland as well as of France in which he spent most of his creative life. He has scoured the archives of Warsaw, Krakow, Paris and London in his quest for the truth, and has based his account exclusively on primary sources and contemporary accounts.

The result is a biography of authority, perception and wit.

Chopin emerges from the sugary romantic mist in which