Alan Walker (musicologist)
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Alan Walker FRSC is an English-Canadian musicologist and university professor best known as a biographer and scholar of composer Franz Liszt. Walker has also written on composers Robert Schumann and F
Alan Walker
Walker receiving an honorary doctorate from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, presented by the Rector Dr. Csaba Kutnyánszky.
Frédéric Chopin
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Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era
Alan Walker (musicologist)
…and university professor best known as a biographer and scholar of composer Franz Liszt. Walker has also written on composers Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin, as well as conductor Hans von Bülow. He has held posts at a variety of institutions, including the Guildhall School of Music, the University of London…
Daguerreotype, c. 1849
Chopin's birthplace in Żelazowa Wola
Chopin's father, Nicolas Chopin, by Mieroszewski, 1829
Chopin, by Mieroszewski, 1829