Chopin's Letters and 21 color plates

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Chopin's Letters and 21 color plates"Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters." Books "Perhaps no composer's letters are so kindred to his music, and reminiscent of the impression produced by it, as Chopin's are." The New York Times This superbly edited selection of nearly 300 of Chopin's letters, the first to be published in English, vividly reveals the composer as man and artist, and evokes the remarkable age Europe of the 1830s and 1840s he shared with an