The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

Myth and reality: a biographical introduction Part I. The Growth of a Style: 1. Piano music and the public concert, 1800-1850 Janet Ritterman 2. The nocturne: development of a new style David Rowland 3. The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents Simon Finlow 4. Tonal architecture in the early music John Rink Part II. Profiles of the Music: 5. Extended forms: the ballades, scherzos and fantasies Jim Samson 6. The piano miniature: aspects of formal design Jeffrey Kellberg 7. Beyond the dance Adrian Thomas 8. The sonatas Anatole Leikin Part III. Reception: 9. Chopin in performance James Methuen-Campbell 10. Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland Zofia Chechlinska 11. Victorian attitudes to Chopin Derek Carew 12. Chopin's influence on the Fin de Siè cle and beyond Roy Howat Appendix: An historical survey of Chopin on disc James Methuen-Campbell.