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Offline ihatepop

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Chopin Biography...by Liszt
on: May 25, 2007, 03:04:07 AM
I have recently seen a book named 'Life of Chopin'. It is a biography of Chopin and surprisingly, this biography was written by Liszt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never heard of this book before. Have any of you seen it?

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Offline jlh

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Re: Chopin Biography...by Liszt
Reply #1 on: May 25, 2007, 04:19:51 AM
Here it is as an eBook if you're interested in reading it.  It is translated from the french by Martha Walker Cook.

https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4386
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Re: Chopin Biography...by Liszt
Reply #2 on: May 25, 2007, 08:26:16 AM
You should be aware that this book was not wholly written by Liszt - it was written in collaboration with the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein.
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Reply #3 on: May 25, 2007, 10:47:35 AM
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Re: Chopin Biography...by Liszt
Reply #4 on: May 25, 2007, 04:45:12 PM
You should be aware that this book was not wholly written by Liszt - it was written in collaboration with the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein.

Hope it was better than her other book.

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Re: Chopin Biography...by Liszt
Reply #5 on: May 25, 2007, 05:14:30 PM
Hope it was better than her other book.

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Ah, the Causes Interieures de la faiblesse exterieure de L'Eglise en 1870, perhaps (all 24 volumes of it)? A book which, judging from what I have heard about it, sounds like the sort of blockbuster that could be only written by an entity such as an unholy combination of pianistimo and ahinton.  ;D
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Re: Chopin Biography...by Liszt
Reply #6 on: May 25, 2007, 05:20:08 PM
Indeed, a joint book by them would be similar.

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