© Protected - Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

  Edward Cahill (1885-1975) Edward Cahill seated in the front row on the left of Princess Alice at a private Mayfair piano recital at the home of the Dowager Lady Swaythling 1934  The Pocket Paderewski The Beguiling life of the Australian Concert Pianist Edward Cahil l Michael Moran [Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, November 2016 ] You might like to begin reading this already published biography of my great-uncle, the glamorous Australian concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975), issued some time ago (Melbourne, 2016). It took me six years to write. I feel it is an important biographical contribution to Australian cultural history of an outstanding but now forgotten musical figure who performed internationally at a time when Australian concert artists were relatively unknown in Europe. I was prompted to this serialization by my detailed coverage of the magnificent, inspired yet in some ways controversial 2020 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. C...