The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars provide a uniquely comprehensive guide to the composer and his music.

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin is designed to provide the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into Chopin's music and to account for a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant.The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.