An authoritative, accessible biography details Chopin’s personal turmoil and captures his true musical significance Chopin is one of those great composers – Debussy is another – whose supreme ...

"A great, grrreat piece of news is that Little Chip-Chip is going to give a grrreat concert," wrote the cigar-smoking, larger-than-life George Sand in 1841. The news was indeed significant, because ...

Tim Page is a professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997 for his writings about music for the Washington Post. An ideal ...

McMaster professor Alan Walker spent 10 years travelling the world, combing through the archives of one of history's most fabled composers. Fryderyk Chopin has been the subject of many biographies and ...

Frederic Chopin (1810–1849) composed almost exclusively for the piano. Every work written by this Polish-born son of a French father and Polish mother featured the piano in some way. It was presented ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...

Frédéric Chopin’s nine-year affair with author George Sand is the stuff of legend. Less well known is his relationship with Jane Stirling of Perthshire. Infatuated with her superstar piano teacher, ...