Nineteenth-Century Transcriptions of Works by Fryderyk Chopin - Hardcover

by Maciej Goląb (Other), John Comber (Translator), Barbara Literska (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.