The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

Contents

• Chronology
• Myth and reality: a biographical introduction
• Part I . The Growth of a Style:
• 1. Piano music and the public concert, 1800-1850 Janet Ritterman
• 2. The nocturne: development of a new style David Rowland
• 3. The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents Simon Finlow
• 4. Tonal architecture in the early music John Rink
• Part II . Profiles of the Music:
• 5. Extended forms: the ballades, scherzos and fantasies Jim Samson
• 6. Small 'forms': in defence of the prelude Jeffrey Kallberg
• 7. Beyond the dance Adrian Thomas
• 8. The sonatas Anatole Leikin
• Part III . Reception:
• 9. Chopin in performance James Methuen-Campbell
• 10. Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland Zofia Chechlinska
• 11. Victorian attitudes to Chopin Derek Carew
• 12. Chopin's influence on the fin de siecle and beyond Roy Howat
• Appendix: a historical survey of Chopin on disc James Methuen-Campbell
• Notes
• List of Chopin's works
• Bibliographical note
• Index.