Based on the discovery of previously unknown Webern manuscripts, notebooks, and diaries, this biography of the twentieth-century composer examines all the cruci
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Frédéric Chopin’s reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more comp
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