Paul Kildea holds an honours degree in piano performance and a masters degree in musicology from The University of Melbourne - where he is now an Honorary Principal Fellow and where in 2016 he was Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow - and a doctorate from Oxford University. His books include Selling Britten and Britten on Music. In January 2013 Penguin published Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century to enormous critical acclaim; it is now widely recognized as the best book on its subject, the Financial Times calling it 'unquestionably the music book of the year.' In June 2018 Penguin published Chopin's Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism, which is currently being developed as a feature film. In October 2019 he succeeded Carl Vine as Artistic Director of Musica Viva, Australia.
Nel novembre 1838 da una cella della certosa abbandonata di Valldemossa, fra le montagne che circondano Palma di Maiorca, si diffondono le note di un «pianino». Non sono note qualsiasi: sono quelle che completeranno i ventiquattro Preludi di Frédéric Chopin, opera cardine del Romanticismo....
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