Chopin's pianos
Chopin's Swansong - a book by Alex Cobbe
Published by The Chopin Society UK, in association with the Cobbe Collection Trust, 2010. This richly illustrated book recounts the story of three pianos Chopin lived with and used in his concerts in 1848. On two of them, in an exceptional burst of musical activity, he endowed English audiences with the final performances of his life - his swansong. The third belonged to his close friend and pupil Jane Stirling who organised his visit to Britain and whom, at this time, he was seeing almost every day. It relates the circumstances of why all three pianos - made by the three top manufacturers of the time, Pleyel, Broadwood and Erard - are now to be found in a Robert Adam-designed house in the Surrey countryside. The book discusses Chopin's relationship and opinions concerning Jane Stirling and the three piano makers. It contains new discoveries resulting from fresh examination of the primary sources, and was published to celebrate the bicentenary of Chopin's birth. 62pp, 23.5cm x 30cm hardback, available by mail order at these special prices per copy (inclusive of p&p):
| United Kingdom | £24.50 | Europe | £28.00 | Rest of the World | £32.00 |
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