Age of Chopin

<p>This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopin's life and oeuvre in various cultural contexts of his era. Fourteen original essays by internationally-known scholars suggest new connections between his compositions and the intellectual literary artistic and musical environs of Warsaw and Paris. Individual essays consider representations of Chopin in the visual arts; reception in the United States and in Poland; analytical aspects of the mazurkas and waltzes; and political literary and gender aspects of Chopin's music and legacy. Several senior scholars represent the fields of American Western European and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history.</p>