The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First edition (stated). Quarto in green DJ; xi, 341 p, b&w illus; 26 cm. Top corners bumped, else fine in near fine, faintly scratched and worn DJ. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780521404907

Contents: The growth of a style. Piano music and the public concert 1800-1850 / Janet Ritterman -- The nocturne: development of a new style / David Rowland -- The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents / Simon Finlow -- Tonal architecture in the early music / John Rink -- Profiles of the music. Extended forms: the ballades, scherzos and fantasies / Jim Samson -- Small 'forms': in defence of the prelude / Jeffrey Kallberg -- Beyond the dance / Adrian Thomas -- The sonatas / Anatole Leikin -- Reception. Chopin in performance / James Methuen-Campbell -- Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland / Zofia Chechlinska -- Victorian attitudes to Chopin -- Derek Carew -- Chopin's influence on the fin de siècle and beyond / Roy Howat. Music.