Overview
This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopin's 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 Chopin's music and legacy. Several senior scholars represent the fields of American, Western European, and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history.
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Author: Halina Goldberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780253216281
ISBN 10: 0253216281
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 07 May 2004
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> Emanating from a 1999 interdisciplinary conference at IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, these 13 essays are grouped under four headings: Memories, Images, and Dreams, Analytical Perspectives, Gender, Genre, Genius, and ChopinAppropriated. Likely of interest to inexperienced readers will be the comparison ofEug ne (Eugene) Delacroix's 1837 self-portrait with his incomplete 1838 portrait ofChopin; the history of Waclaw Szymanowski's Chopin monument in Warsaw, which wasunveiled in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958; thereception of Chopin's music with its national character as reflected in 19th-centuryPolish periodicals; and the spreading popularity of Chopin's music in the US from1839 to 1900. More specialized essays propose that waltzes Chopin chose to publishwere those depicting dancers' physical motions; describe contexts in which Chopin'smusic is found in ballet, cinema, and television; and examine the Polish spirit, Polish race, and Chopin as a wiesz
<p> Emanating from a 1999 interdisciplinary conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, these 13 essays are grouped under four headings: Memories, Images, and Dreams, Analytical Perspectives, Gender, Genre, Genius, and Chopin Appropriated. Likely of interest to inexperienced readers will be the comparison of Eug ne (Eugene) Delacroix's 1837 self-portrait with his incomplete 1838 portrait of Chopin; the history of Waclaw Szymanowski's Chopin monument in Warsaw, which was unveiled in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958; the reception of Chopin's music with its national character as reflected in 19th-century Polish periodicals; and the spreading popularity of Chopin's music in the US from 1839 to 1900. More specialized essays propose that waltzes Chopin chose to publish were those depicting dancers' physical motions; describe contexts in which Chopin's music is found in ballet, cinema, and television; and examine the Polish spirit, Polish race, and Chopin as a wieszes, or prophet/patriot. Other articles propose that the forerunner of Chopin's nocturnes was the Italian vocal nocturne and investigate the meanings of 19th-century French thinking and whether it was exclusively masculine. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --J./P>--J. Behrens, The Glenn Gould School, The Royal Conservatory of Music Choice (01/01/2004)
Emanating from a 1999 interdisciplinary conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, these 13 essays are grouped under four headings: Memories, Images, and Dreams, Analytical Perspectives, Gender, Genre, Genius, and Chopin Appropriated. Likely of interest to inexperienced readers will be the comparison of Eugene (Eugene) Delacroix's 1837 self-portrait with his incomplete 1838 portrait of Chopin; the history of Waclaw Szymanowski's Chopin monument in Warsaw, which was unveiled in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958; the reception of Chopin's music with its national character as reflected in 19th-century Polish periodicals; and the spreading popularity of Chopin's music in the US from 1839 to 1900. More specialized essays propose that waltzes Chopin chose to publish were those depicting dancers' physical motions; describe contexts in which Chopin's music is found in ballet, cinema, and television; and examine the Polish spirit, Polish race, and Chopin as a wieszes, or prophet/patriot. Other articles propose that the forerunner of Chopin's nocturnes was the Italian vocal nocturne and investigate the meanings of 19th-century French thinking and whether it was exclusively masculine. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.--J. Behrens, The Glenn Gould School, The Royal Conservatory of Music Choice (01/01/2004)
<p> Emanating from a 1999 interdisciplinary conference at IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, these 13 essays are grouped under four headings: Memories, Images, and Dreams, Analytical Perspectives, Gender, Genre, Genius, and ChopinAppropriated. Likely of interest to inexperienced readers will be the comparison ofEug?ne (Eugene) Delacroix's 1837 self-portrait with his incomplete 1838 portrait ofChopin; the history of Waclaw Szymanowski's Chopin monument in Warsaw, which wasunveiled in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958; thereception of Chopin's music with its national character as reflected in 19th-centuryPolish periodicals; and the spreading popularity of Chopin's music in the US from1839 to 1900. More specialized essays propose that waltzes Chopin chose to publishwere those depicting dancers' physical motions; describe contexts in which Chopin'smusic is found in ballet, cinema, and television; and examine the Polish spirit, Polish race, and Chopin as a wiesz
Emanating from a 1999 interdisciplinary conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, these 13 essays are grouped under four headings: Memories, Images, and Dreams, Analytical Perspectives, Gender, Genre, Genius, and Chopin Appropriated. Likely of interest to inexperienced readers will be the comparison of Eugene (Eugene) Delacroix's 1837 self-portrait with his incomplete 1838 portrait of Chopin; the history of Waclaw Szymanowski's Chopin monument in Warsaw, which was unveiled in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958; the reception of Chopin's music with its national character as reflected in 19th-century Polish periodicals; and the spreading popularity of Chopin's music in the US from 1839 to 1900. More specialized essays propose that waltzes Chopin chose to publish were those depicting dancers' physical motions; describe contexts in which Chopin's music is found in ballet, cinema, and television; and examine the Polish spirit, Polish race, and Chopin as a wieszes, or prophet/patriot. Other articles propose that the forerunner of Chopin's nocturnes was the Italian vocal nocturne and investigate the meanings of 19th-century French thinking and whether it was exclusively masculine. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. J./P>--J. Behrens, The Glenn Gould School, The Royal Conservatory of Music Choice
Author Information
Halina Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. Her research centers on the musical and cultural environment of Chopin's Warsaw, performance practice issues, questions of reception, and the musical, social, and political creation of national constructs.
