Chopin and His World

Jonathan D. Bellman is professor of music history and literature and head of academic studies in music at the University of Northern Colorado. Halina Goldberg is professor of musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and affiliate of the Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Polish Studies Center, and Russian and East European Institute.

Acknowledgments ix Permissions x Introduction 1 Halina Goldberg and Jonathan D. Bellman I Contemporary Cultural Contexts Chopin's Oneiric Soundscapes and the Role of Dreams in Romantic Culture 15 Halina Goldberg Jozef Sikorski's "Recollection of Chopin": The Earliest Essay on Chopin and His Music 45 Translated by John Comber Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg Chopin and the Gothic 85 Anatole Leikin Revisiting Chopin's Tubercular Song, or, An Opera in the Making 103 David Kasunic Chopin and Jews 123 Jeffrey Kallberg II Musical and Pianistic Contexts Middlebrow Becomes Transcendent: The Popular Roots of Chopin's Musical Language 147 Jonathan D. Bellman Karol Kurpinski on the Musical Expression Of Polish National Sentiment 171 Translated by John Comber Introduced and Annotated by Halina Goldberg Dance and the Music of Chopin: The Polonaise 187 Eric Mckee The Barcarolle and the Barcarolle: Topic and Genre in Chopin 231 James Parakilas Chopin and Improvisation 249 John Rink Chopin Among the Pianists in Paris 271 Sandra P. Rosenblum The Hand of Chopin: Documents and Commentary 297 Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger Translated by Virginia E. Whealton Afterword Chopin and the Consequences of Exile 315 Leon Botstein Index 357 Notes on Contributors 366