The Age of Chopin Interdisciplinary Inquiries [Paperback]

This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopins life and oeuvre in various cultural contexts of his era. Fourteen original essays by internationally-known scholars suggest new connections between his compositions and the intellectual, literary, artistic, and musical environs of Warsaw and Paris. Individual essays consider representations of Chopin in the visual arts; reception in the United States and in Poland; analytical aspects of the mazurkas and waltzes; and political, literary, and gender aspects of Chopins music and legacy. Several senior scholars represent the fields of American, Western European, and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history.

Halina Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. Her research centers on the musical and cultural environment of Chopins Warsaw, performance practice issues, questions of reception, and the musical, social, and political creation of national constructs.

PREFACE
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: Chopin Then and Now: A Fantasy Daniel Stone
PART I. Memories, Images, and Dreams
1. Chopin at Home Bozena Shallcross
2. Delacroix's Portrait of Chopin as a Surrogate Self-Portrait John Nici
3. The Monument of Fryderyk Chopin: Concepts and Reality Waldemar Okon
4. 'Remembering that tale of grief': The Prophetic Voice in Chopin's Music Halina Goldberg
PART II. Analytical Perspectives
5. Idiosyncrasies of Phrase Rhythm in Chopin's Mazurkas Carl Schachter
6. Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Waltz Eric McKee
7. Chopiniana and Music's Contextual Allusions Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
PART III. Gender, Genre, Genius
8. 'Nuit plus belle qu'un beau jour': Poetry, Song, and the Voice in the Piano Nocturne James Parakilas
9. Gender and Genius in Post-revolutionary France: Chopin and Sand Whitney Walton
PART IV. Chopin Appropriated
10. Chopin Reception as Reflected in Nineteenth-Century Polish Pel)