Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin played before the reigning Russian Grand Duke at the age of eight. He emigrated to Vienna at the age of 18 just before Warsaw's p... » 

Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin played before the reigning Russian Grand Duke at the age of eight. He emigrated to Vienna at the age of 18 just before Warsaw's patriotic uprising was crushed by the tsar's armies. This book presents his complex, contradictory genius. «