Zapomniana powieść. O Młodości Chopina Adolfa Nowaczyńskiego
A forgotten novel. About The Youth of Chopin by Adolf Nowaczyński

Author(s): Ilona Pikulska
Subject(s): Music, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Adolf Nowaczyński;
Summary/Abstract: A sketch about a forgotten and the only novel by Adolf Nowaczyński entitled The Youth of Chopin is an attempt at recognizing the research method of the biographer, as well as distinguishing those threads, which constitute the compositional linkages. The writer makes use of the source material in an impressive way in order to vividly recreate the Polish episode in the life of the composer. // The author shows that this book is an unusis biography of Frederic Chopin because it does not take up the description of the music of Chopin, but rather makes one aware of its sources. The composer’s youth becomes a pretext to an interesting story of the narrator - a witness of the cultural and social life of the 19th century Warsaw. // The Youth of Chopin is a biographical essay, which refreshes the views on and tells a few words about the national genius.

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