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Alan Walker on the story of Chopin’s Preludes

Author of Frydyrik Chopin: A Life and Times, Alan Walker has written several books, including his definitive three-volume biography Franz Liszt, which received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award, among other honors. His writing has appeared in The Musical Quarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, the Times Educational Supplement, and other publications. A professor emeritus at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Walker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1984 and was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2012.