On Chopin with Dr. Alan Walker

Dr. Saltz interviews Alan Walker, a leading authority on Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin, one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved and legendary artists.

Walker is author of Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times, the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York and Washington, D.C., this corrective biography dispels many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. From Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland to his romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years, Walker, along with Dr. Saltz, provides an intimate look into a dramatic life.

A book signing follows the event.