Maurycy Karasowski, one of Chopin's early biographers

By the first decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published.[1]

Full biographies

Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include:

  • Liszt, Franz (1852). F. Chopin (in French). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.[2][3]
    • (1880). Life of Chopin. Translated by Cook, Martha Walker [at Wikisource] (4th ed.) via Project Gutenberg.
    • (1890). F. Chopin (in French) (4th ed.). Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel via Project Gutenberg.
  • Karasowski, Maurycy (first name in German: Moritz):
  • Niecks, Frederick (1888). Frederick Chopin: As a Man and Musician. Novello, Ewer & Co.[5][3]
  • Zamoyski, Adam (1979). Chopin: A Biography. London: Collins. ISBN 0002160897. OCLC 5948326.
  • Walker, Alan (2018). Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374714376.[1][6]

Partial biographies

Book-length biographies concentrating on a limited number of episodes in Chopin's life include:

Collections of primary documents

Bundled primary documents, such as letters and diaries, pertaining to Chopin's life include:[9][10]

References

Sources

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