ABSTRACT
Biographies of Fredric Chopin have proliferated since the composer's death, with each generation of scholars reinterpreting the known facts of his life and activities. This chapter lists, in alphabetical order, Chopin biographies after 1915, including brief biographical overviews for the popular market, college-level studies, and post-1950 scholarly biographies of the 'life-and-works' kind, extensively relying on source documents, letters, manuscripts, and archival research. Chopin's studies in Warsaw is based on original archival research, professors, and the course of study. The chapter provides in-depth archive-based study of harmony education available to Chopin in Warsaw, compared with other educational-theoretical approaches in Germany, France, and Austria. It deals with detailed description of the cultural institutions, monuments, and educational and social organizations in Chopin's Warsaw. It provides information about the value of his estate and the role of family and friends in settling his affairs. It also covers many individual relationships from his life through the attendance at the funeral.
