Christine Lee Gengaro

Experiencing Chopin

A Listener's Companion

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Produktbeschreibung

Gengarosurveys Chopin's position as a composer of Romantic piano music at a time when the piano stood at the center of musical and social life. It sheds a spotlight on Chopin and his music that illuminates the Romantic period in which he lived, the social and artistic climate, and the importance of this most individual artist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781442260863
• ISBN-10: 1442260866
• Artikelnr.: 47878051

Autorenporträt

Christine Lee Gengaro

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Chapter 1: The Piano Lesson
Chapter 2: Adventures Abroad
Chapter 3: Two Pianos, Four Hands
Chapter 4: The Artistic Process of the Romantic
Chapter 5: "Cannons Among the Flowers"
Chapter 6: Yours With All Devotion
Chapter 7: Chopin and the Voice
Chapter 8: Influences, Past and Contemporary
Chapter 9: Physical and Mental Health
Chapter 10: Chopin in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Selected Reading
Selected Listening
Glossary
About the Author