Biographies of Frédéric Chopin
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By the first decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published.[1]
Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include:
- Liszt, Franz (1852). F. Chopin (in French). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.[2][3]
- — (1880). Life of Chopin. Translated by Cook, Martha Walker [at Wikisource] (4th ed.) – via Project Gutenberg.
- — (1890). F. Chopin (in French) (4th ed.). Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel – via Project Gutenberg.
- Karasowski, Maurycy (first name in German: Moritz):
- — (1877). Friedrich Chopin: Sein Leben, seine Werke und Briefe (in German). Dresden: Ries. (2 vols.)
- — (1878). Friedrich Chopin: Sein Leben und seine Briefe (in German) (2nd, reworked and enlarged ed.). Dresden: Ries.[4]
- — (1879). Frederick Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works. Translated by Hill, Emily. London: Reeves. (2 vols.)[4]
- Niecks, Frederick (1888). Frederick Chopin: As a Man and Musician. Novello, Ewer & Co.[5][3]
- Zamoyski, Adam (1979). Chopin: A Biography. London: Collins. ISBN 0002160897. OCLC 5948326.
- — (1980). Chopin: A New Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 0385135971. OCLC 639395617.[3]
- — (2010). Chopin: Prince of the Romantics (revised digital ed.). London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780007351824. OCLC 891811930.
- Walker, Alan (2018). Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374714376.[1][6]
Partial biographies
Book-length biographies concentrating on a limited number of episodes in Chopin's life include:
- Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-82458-1.[7]
- Eisler, Benita (2007) [2003]. Chopin's Funeral. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 9780307425256.[8]
Collections of primary documents
Bundled primary documents, such as letters and diaries, pertaining to Chopin's life include:[9][10]
- Chopin's Letters (1931).
- Based on Henryk Opieński's collection
- Translations by Ethel Voynich
- Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin (1962).
- Based on Bronisław Edward Sydow's collection
- Translations by Arthur Hedley
- Chopin's Polish Letters (2016). ISBN 9788364823190.
- Published by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
- Translations by David Frick
