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 a...

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