Myth and reality: a biographical introduction

pp 1-8

PART 1 - The growth of a style

1 - Piano music and the public concert, 1800–1850

pp 9-31

2 - The nocturne: development of a new style

pp 32-49

3 - The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents

pp 50-77

4 - Tonal architecture in the early music

pp 78-98

PART 2 - Profiles of the music

5 - Extended forms: the ballades, scherzos and fantasies

pp 99-123

6 - Small ‘forms’: in defence of the prelude

pp 124-144

7 - Beyond the dance

pp 145-159

8 - The sonatas

pp 160-188

PART 3 - Reception

9 - Chopin in performance

pp 189-205

10 - Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland

pp 206-221

11 - Victorian attitudes to Chopin

pp 222-245

12 - Chopin's influence on the fin de siècle and beyond

pp 246-283

Appendix A historical survey of Chopin on disc

pp 284-294

Notes

pp 295-327

List of Chopin's work

pp 328-332

Bibliographical note

pp 333-334

Index

pp 335-341