Notes on Chopin André Gide Author

An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the 20th century’s most important figures, André Gide. André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Fr... Read more

An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the 20th century’s most important figures, André Gide. André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer betrayed...deeply, intimately, totally violated by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin’s promenade of discoveries, Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gide’s own poetic expression for the music he so loved. Less