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The Parisian worlds of Frédéric Chopin /
Fleeing his native Warsaw, Chopin stopped in Paris in 1831 and stayed there until his death. The author "re-creates the Paris that Chopin knew, providing vivid details about its places, people, and politics, and showing how these affected [Chopin].--Jacket
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Paris à la Galignani: an Anglo-Italian guide to the French capital for the English-speaking tourist
- Polish Parisians: a people in exile
- From citizen-king to prince-president: France as a "bourgeois-cracy"
- Society and salons: a "who's tout" of le tout Paris
- Pox Britannica: the great epidemic of anglomania
- Musical currents along the Seine: from concert halls to dance halls
- Opera: a vocal art and social spectacle
- Bohemia and the demimonde: two operas in the making
- Penning a profit: literature becomes lucrative
- Stage by stage: the evolution of theatrical taste from the battle of "Hernani" to the reign of Rachel
- Delacroix, Daumier, and Daguerre: a "3-D" view of art
- "A votre santé!": coping with poultices, purges, and the Parisian medical profession
- Visions of a better world: searching for utopia from Menilmontant to the Rue Vanneau
- The big shadow of the little corporal: Napoléon becomes a legend
- Epilogue: obituary and funeral of Frédéric Chopin
- Appendix. The Paris residence of Frédéric Chopin.