CHOPIN, FREDERIC

Additional reading Arthur Hedley, Chopin, rev. ed., ed. by Maurice J.E. Brown (1974), is a succinct and reliable modern survey of Chopin's life and music, with a catalog of works. Frederick Niecks, Frederick Chopin As a Man and Musician (1888, reprinted 1973), long remained the standard study in English. William D. Murdoch, Chopin: His Life (1934), is a standard biography; and George R. Marek and Maria Gordon-Smith, Chopin, (1978), rejects the conventional image of Chopin as weak and overly sentimental. As for musical discussion alone, Gerald Abraham Chopin's Musical Style (1939, reprinted 1980), is a scholarly treatement. Alan Walker (ed.), Frdric Chopin: Profiles of the Man and the Musician, 2nd ed., partly rev. (1979), is a symposium from various writers.