Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal
Paperback Edition features an all new introduction from the author
One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the ""other world"" transformed his life and career
By any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career. His discovery of two long-lost Chopin scores made headlines around the world, and he has been honored many times for his breathtaking performances of some of the most exciting and challenging works in the standard classical piano repertoire. As he retraces this remarkable journey in Chopin and Beyond, he shares something even more extraordinary: the other-worldly experiences that have shaped his life and music in surprising and profound ways.
- Shares milestones and memories from the life and musical career of one of the world's greatest pianists
- Includes lively anecdotes of famous classical musicians and other notable figures, including Vladimir Horowitz and Pablo Picasso
- Describes his long-secret but ultimately triumphant battle with arthritis
- Recounts the paranormal experiences that deepened his personal association with Chopin, effected near miraculous recoveries from serious accidents, and more
Like the best music, Chopin and Beyond will open your mind to explore the wonder and possibility of a different world.
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Book details
- Author
- Byron Janis, Maria Cooper Janis
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 288
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Music
- Topics
- classical piano · musician memoir · paranormal experiences · Frédéric Chopin · lost musical manuscripts · synchronicity · child prodigy · overcoming illness
- ISBN-13
- 9781683366508 (Paperback)9780470604441 (Hardcover)
About the author
BYRON JANIS was an American classical pianist who made his orchestral debut at age 15 with Toscanini’s NBC Symphony Orchestra and at 18 became the youngest artist ever signed to a contract by RCA Victor Records. He is the author of Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal, co-written with his wife, Maria Cooper Janis.
Janis received a Lifetime Achievement Award for arthritis advocacy in 2012. He was the first American artist chosen to participate in the 1960 Cultural Exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, and in 1967 discovered previously unknown Chopin waltz manuscripts in France and later at Yale University.
Janis served as a national spokesman for the Arthritis Foundation following his psoriatic arthritis diagnosis in 1973. He died in New York City at age 95.