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Music in Chopin's Warsaw (Hardcover)
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Music in Chopin's Warsaw (Hardcover)
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Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of
Fryderyk Chopin's youth-largely unknown to the English-speaking
world-and places Chopin's early works in the context of this
milieu. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that
allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and
musical circumstances. Chopin's Warsaw emerges as a vibrant
European city that was home to an opera house, various smaller
theaters, one of the earliest modern conservatories in Europe,
several societies which organized concerts, musically active
churches, spirited salon life, music publishers and bookstores,
instrument builders, and for a short time even a weekly paper
devoted to music. Warsaw was aware of and in tune with the most
recent European styles and fashions in music, but it was also the
cradle of a vernacular musical language that was initiated by the
generation of Polish composers before Chopin and which found its
full realization in his work. Significantly, this period of
cultural revival in the Polish capital coincided with the duration
of Chopin's stay there-from his infancy in 1810 to his final
departure from his homeland in 1830. An uncanny convergence of
political, economic, social, and cultural circumstances generated
the dynamic musical, artistic, and intellectual environment that
nurtured the developing genius. Had Chopin been born a decade
earlier or a decade later, Goldberg argues, the capital-devastated
by warfare and stripped of all cultural institutions-could not have
provided support for his talent. The young composer would have been
compelled to seek musical education abroad and thus would have been
deprived of the specifically Polish experience so central to his
musical style. A rigorously-researched and fascinating look at the
Warsaw in which Chopin grew up, this book will appeal to students
and scholars of nineteenth century music, as well as music lovers
and performers.
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