Nineteenth-Century Transcriptions of Works by Fryderyk Chopin

ISBN-13: 9783631800690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 310 str.

John Comber; Barbara Literska

Opis

This book is the first monographic study of 19th-century transcriptions of Chopin's music. The study is based on the rich source material, which formed the basis for considerations from the perspective of social history, music analysis and aesthetics. This work reveals an important document of Chopin's music reception in the 19th century.

Spis treści

Sources to the reception of Chopin's music in the nineteenth century - Systematics of nineteenth-century transcriptions of works by Chopin - Transcriptions as a form of the manifestation of artistic values: Trivialmusik?

O autorze

Barbara Literska is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Musical Education at the University of Zielona Góra. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music history and theory, reception of Chopin's music and the works of the eminent Polish composer Tadeusz Baird.