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10th International Paderewski Piano Competition November 6th -20th, 2016 Bydgoszcz, Poland

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For the 10th International Paderewski Piano Competition  6th-20th  November 2016  Bydgoszcz, Poland Refer to this link: www.michael-moran.org/blog

The Pocket Paderewski : The Beguiling Life of the Australian Concert Pianist Edward Cahill

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Click on photographs to enlarge Dust Jacket Design Amelia Walker : www.ameliadesign.net This post is for those of you who may have been reading my blog over the last six years. In many posts I described my travails in writing this latest book, a biography of Edward Cahill, the glamorous but now forgotten Australian concert pianist. A long journey but a rewarding one. The book will be published by  Australian Scholarly Publishing in November this year. I managed to obtain three excellent reviews  by eminent musicians  of the rare private recordings of Liszt and Chopin that survived his peripatetic lifestyle. They generously made time from busy international schedules to listen via the internet to his recordings. This link will be printed in the book for readers to access. It will add a remarkable extra dimension and element of discovery to the biography of a now forgotten musician. His life was one that young pianists of today could only dream of living - a captivating socia