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Chopin Studies 2

  • Editor: Rink, John
  • Editor: Samson, Jim
An immensely valuable and well-researched book

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$76.50

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Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. Chopin reception: theory, history, analysis Jim Samson
  • 2. Chopin as 'salon composer' in nineteenth-century German criticism Andreas Ballstaedt
  • 3. Chopin as modernist in nineteenth-century Russia Anne Swartz
  • 4. Small fairy voices: sex, history and meaning in Chopin Jeffrey Kallberg
  • 5. Chopin's Ballade Op. 23 and the revolution of the intellectuals Karol Berger
  • 6. The Polonaise-Fantasy and issues of musical narrative Anthony Newcomb
  • 7. Placing Chopin: reflections on a compositional aesthetic Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
  • 8. Ambiguity and reinterpretation in Chopin Edward T. Cone
  • 9. The Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4: autograph sources and interpretation Carl Schachter
  • 10. Performing the F# minor Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 L. Henry Shaffer
  • 11. Chopin's tempo rubato in context David Rowland
  • 12. Authentic Chopin: history, analysis and intuition in performance John Rink
  • Appendix: encounters with Chopin: Fanny Erskine's Paris diary, 1847-8 Jeremy Barlow
  • Index.