Notes on Chopin

An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth centurys most important figures, Andr Gide Andr Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frdric Chopin as a composer betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopins promenade of discoveries, Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gides own poetic expression for the music he so loved.