Write with Chopin

Frédéric Chopin in Literature. Texts compiled by Peter Schnyder and Augustin Voegele.

This volume focuses on how literature has portrayed the personality of Frédéric Chopin and his music. From the Chopin of George Sand and Eugène Delacroix to that of contemporary popular writers (including Frédéric Dard), via, amongst others, the Chopin of the librettist Angiolo Orvieto, that of the Russian poets of the Silver Age, and that of musicologists such as Alfred James Hipkins and Thérèse Marix-Spire, this volume seeks to demonstrate how the world of literature sheds light on the world of sound, and how writing engages in dialogue with Chopin’s music, each enriching the other.

Peter Schnyder is Professor Emeritus at the University of Haute-Alsace and a member of the Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures (ILLE). He is the author of numerous works on French and Francophone poetry, as well as on André Gide.

Augustin Voegele holds a PhD in French literature and is the winner of the 2017 Prize from the Catherine Gide Foundation and the Fondation des Treilles. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and music, particularly in relation to André Gide.

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