Twelve Studies in Chopin

The studies collected in this book fall into four chief thematic areas of research on Fryderyk Chopins life, stylistic changes, creative output, and musical reception. The first one is devoted to the origins of the composers artistic formation in the context of his connections with the Main School of Music at the Royal University of Warsaw. The second thematic area is tied to the problem of Chopins musical language and transformation of his individual style. The third group of studies concentrates on issues in Chopins musical aesthetics, while the fourth and final one is devoted to the questions of composers reception in the 19th-century musical culture in light of the practice of musical transcriptions at the time.