The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.
| ISBN: | 9780521404907 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 1992 |
| Author: | Jim Samson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 341 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Music |
| Genres: |
Musicians, singers, bands and groups |