Chopin Biography...by Liszt

[ihatepop]

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?

ihatepop

[jlh]

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

[ronde_des_sylphes]

You should be aware that this book was not wholly written by Liszt - it was written in collaboration with the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein.

[tompilk]

i think i saw this on ebay just a few days ago... is that where you saw it? Someone's got a signed copy of Sorabji's Mi Contra Fa as well. Up to £100 with 2 days to go!
I've been thinking about collecting rare autographs and letters from composers, until I saw the amount of them which are fake, and the price tags.
This guy seems to cheap to be true, and too many items to be authentic:
https://stores.ebay.co.uk/Big-Mike-13_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm
He has about 4 Ashkenazy autographs for about £10 each... I'm tempted.
Tom

[thalbergmad]

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.

Thal

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Hope it was better than her other book.

Thal

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. 

[thalbergmad]

Indeed, a joint book by them would be similar.

Thal