Chopin and His World / / ed. by Halina Goldberg, Jonathan D. Bellman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Bellman, Jonathan D.,; Botstein, Leon,; Comber, John,; Eigeldinger, Jean-Jacques,; Goldberg, Halina,; Kallberg, Jeffrey,; Kasunic, David,; Leikin, Anatole,; Mckee, Eric,; Parakilas, James,; Rink, John,; Rosenblum, Sandra P.,; Whealton, Virginia E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bellman, Jonathan D.,; Goldberg, Halina,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 20 halftones. 10 tables. 9 musical examples.

A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk ChopinFryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural narratives formed during his lifetime. These include the romanticism of the ailing spirit, tragically singing its death-song as life ebbs; the Polish expatriate, helpless witness to the martyrdom of his beloved homeland, exiled among friendly but uncomprehending strangers; the sorcerer-bard of dream, memory, and Gothic terror; and the pianist's pianist, shunning the appreciative crowds yet composing and improvising idealized operas, scenes, dances, and narratives in the shadow of virtuoso-idol Franz Liszt.The international Chopin scholars gathered here demonstrate the ways in which Chopin responded to and was understood to exemplify these narratives, as an artist of his own time and one who transcended it. This collection also offers recently rediscovered artistic representations of his hands (with analysis), and-for the first time in English-an extended tribute to Chopin published in Poland upon his death and contemporary Polish writings contextualizing Chopin's compositional strategies.The contributors are Jonathan D. Bellman, Leon Botstein, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Halina Goldberg, Jeffrey Kallberg, David Kasunic, Anatole Leikin, Eric McKee, James Parakilas, John Rink, and Sandra P. Rosenblum. Contemporary documents by Karol Kurpiński, Adam Mickiewicz, and Józef Sikorski are included.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- PART I. CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CONTEXTS -- Chopin's Oneiric Soundscapes and the Role of Dreams in Romantic Culture -- Józef Sikorski's "Recollection of Chopin": The Earliest Essay on Chopin and His Music -- Chopin and the Gothic -- Revisiting Chopin's Tubercular Song, or, An Opera in the Making -- Chopin and Jews -- PART II. MUSICAL AND PIANISTIC CONTEXTS -- Middlebrow Becomes Transcendent: The Popular Roots of Chopin's Musical Language -- Karol Kurpiński on the Musical Expression of 171 Polish National Sentiment -- Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Polonaise -- The Barcarolle and the Barcarolle: Topic and Genre in Chopin -- Chopin and Improvisation -- Chopin Among the Pianists in Paris -- The Hand of Chopin: Documents and Commentary -- Afterword -- Chopin and the Consequences of Exile -- Index -- Contributors