A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Permissions
• Introduction - Halina Goldberg and Jonathan D. Bellman
• Part I: Contemporary Cultural Contexts
• Chopin's Oneiric Soundscapes and the Role of Dreams in Romantic Culture - Halina Goldberg
• Józef Sikorski's “Recollection of Chopin”: The Earliest Essay on Chopin and His Music - Translated by John Comber, Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg
• Chopin and the Gothic - Anatole Leikin
• Revisiting Chopin's Tubercular Song, or, An Opera in the Making - David Kasunic
• Chopin and Jews - Jeffrey Kallberg
• Part II: Musical and Pianistic Contexts
• Middlebrow Becomes Transcendent: The Popular Roots of Chopin's Musical Language - Jonathan D. Bellman
• Karol Kurpiński on the Musical Expression of Polish National Sentiment - Translated by John Comber, Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg
• Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Polonaise - Eric Mckee
• The Barcarolle and the Barcarolle: Topic and Genre in Chopin - James Parakilas
• Chopin and Improvisation - John Rink
• Chopin Among the Pianists in Paris - Sandra P. Rosenblum
• The Hand of Chopin: Documents and Commentary - Jean-Jaques Eigeldinger, Translated by Virginia E. Whealton
• Afterward: Chopin and the Consequences of Exile - Leon Botstein