Author, Lecturer, Broadcaster & Cultural Arts Expert;
President of Art Collage JANG/J Music/J Art/J Books & Media.
Author of over 40 books published on Amazon, including The Crimson Horror series and The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories series.
Dedicated to sharing insights into art, culture, literature, and creative expression through writing, lectures, media, and content creation.
This 15th
book on Amazon in my holiday series explores:
🎹
Chopin’s extraordinary life, from prodigy in Poland to artistic life in Paris 🎶
Emotional depth behind his timeless compositions 💘
Key relationships that shaped his music, including Franz Liszt and George Sand 🎬
Portrayals in movies, TV, and visual arts, with QR codes to instantly
experience his music and films 📜
Complete guide to his works by genre and opus
I start a new music program “Interesting
Music Story” from today.
This program is organized by
selecting music and introducing the stories related to the selected music, for
various music genres such as classical music, jazz, pop, world music, and new
age.
I selected “Classical Music” as the
first music genre, and the first music to be introduced today is “Devil's Trill Sonata” by Giuseppe Tartini.
It's not uncommon for composers to
create new works by accidentally inspired, but there are always interesting
stories around them obsessed with creation. Such is the case with “Violin
Sonata in G minor” by Giuseppe Tartini.
Giuseppe Tartini
The “Violin Sonata in G minor”,
better known as the “Devil's Trill Sonata”, is a
solo violin piece by Giuseppe Tartini, born after he dreamed of making a deal
with the devil for his soul. It is the composer's most famous piece, and an
extremely difficult challenge for even the most accomplished performers due to
its technically difficult passages.
He woke up and swore that he would
recreate what he had heard in his dream. However, he later wrote that "the
composition I wrote were so inferior compared to what I had heard in my dreams,
that I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever if I could have
been able to make a living by any other means."
In other words, although
the composer considered the “Devil's Trill Sonata” to be his best work, he always
felt that his work was too inferior compared to the devil's performance he had
heard in his dream.
This sonata was not published until
1798 (or 1799), almost thirty years after the composer's death, and became the
basis for Cesare Pugni's 1849 ballet “Le Violon du diable” and Chopin's
“Prelude No. 27”.
The Pianist is a biographical war
drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski released in 2002, starring
Adrien Brody. The film is based on the autobiography "The Pianist
(1946)" by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a
Holocaust survivor.
The film was highly acclaimed,
received many awards or nominations, and won the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes
Film Festival. At the 75th Academy Awards, the film won the Oscars for Best
Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor, and was nominated for four other
awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was included in
BBC's “100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century” in 2016.
Movie Review
"Polanski, himself a survivor of
Nazi-occupied Poland, has created a near-masterpiece."(Washington Post)
Interesting stories about the film
1. Adrien Brody became the youngest
person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor when he won for this film at the
age of 29.
2. Adrien Brody learned how to play
the piano for his role.
3. Adrien Brodylost 14 kg to play
Szpilman. The menu for his daily diet was two boiled eggs and green tea for
breakfast, a little chicken for lunch, and a small piece of fish or chicken
with steamed vegetables for dinner over a six week period. Initially, his
weight was 73 kg.
4. To feel the loss necessary to
play this role, Adrien Brody sold his apartment and car and did not watch
television.
6. Roman Polanski was the oldest winner
when he won the Oscar for Best Director at sixty-nine. However, the record
broke two years later when Clint Eastwood won the prize at the age of
seventy-four.
7. The two similarly titled films, The
Piano (1993) and The Pianist (2002), were produced and released about 10 years
apart, both won the same three Academy Awards. All the Oscar winners of the
film The Piano (1993) were women, while all the Oscar winners of the film The
Pianist (2002) were men. In addition, both films won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
The Korean versions of Klimt and Chopin, which
are currently available as English versions in the US Amazon, have been
released for sale in Kyobo Books, Aladin, Interpark and J Art.
The exact titles of the books are:
1. The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories
6. Gustav Klimt
2. The Life & Music of Frederic Chopin,
and His Portrayal in Movies & Arts
Number 1 is a series of painter stories
with the same title, "The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories", which
is one of the programs I have made and lectured.
The five artists of Modigliani, van Gogh,
Monet, Gauguin and Picasso have been published as the series through a
publisher so far.
The “Klimt” is the first book published in
this series by the J Books & Media, founded in February 2018, and the 6th
book in the series as a whole.
The book consists of various stories about
Klimt including his life, interesting stories, women in his portraits, the
story with Egon Schiele, author’s commentary, his unfinished works, and a
gallery of his works.
Like the previous books, the films and
music regarding Klimt are included as QR codes.
Number 2 is the second story of the series
" The Life & Music of ~, and His Portrayal in Movies & Arts,"
and about Frederic Chopin, a Polish genius pianist.
This book introduces Chopin's life,
interesting stories, and his influence on culture and arts.
The book also introduces films and paintings
about Chopin to help readers understand Chopin's reflections in other culture
and arts areas.
I also organized all of Chopin's music by
genres and the number of works, and categorized them into his lifetime and posthumous
to help readers understand Chopin's music.
Like the previously published “Paganini”,
readers can appreciate trailers of films about Chopin as well as all of his
music using QR codes.
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