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Chopin and His World (Paperback)
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Chopin and His World (Paperback)
Series: The Bard Music Festival
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A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and
piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk 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 Kurpi?ski, Adam Mickiewicz, and
Jozef Sikorski are included.
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