My latest monthly essay for Commentary, occasioned by Alan Walker's important new primary-source biography of Fryderyk Chopin, is now on line: Chopin…was a publicity-shunning introvert who played only his own music and performed mainly in the salons of Paris and England on increasingly rare occasions. He made his living teaching piano to well-heeled students of […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM on January 25, 2019