The Age of Chopin
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Inquiries
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780253343192
Subjects: General; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Composers & musicians; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Reference; Biography / Autobiography; 1810-1849; 19th century; Chopin, Frederic,; Chopin, Frâedâeric,; Congresses; Poland; Music
First sentence: The Romantics tended to understand the relationship between artist and home in terms of an unavoidable, but nonetheless desirable, state of homelessness, positioning the artist as an alienated and dispossessed self.