Thread: Chopin Books?

Can someone recommend a good book, with detailed Musical Analysis
of some Chopin music? also... any good recommendations for the best
music/piano books for Chopin would be great.

Thanks!

I could recommend a couple but I'm not sure if they will be avaiable in your place. So let me mention just one book - "O Chopinie" ("About Chopin") by Karol Szymanowski. It is particularly interesting because it is one of very few books wiritten by great composers on subject of other great composers.

I was looking at this one today
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Prelu.../dp/0486240525

Reviewers on there are saying Carl Mikuli changed some notes and so on..

I am looking for the most accurate versions of his songs. can anyone recommend a good book?

I have Dr. Jim Samson's book on Chopin--which is a good critical bio and offers some in-depth musical explication.

http://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Master-...2492787&sr=1-1

There's also the Cambridge Companion edited by Dr. Samson:


http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Comp...2492787&sr=1-2