Editions of Chopins Works in the Nineteenth Century

This book presents the editions of Chopin's works as cultural texts and gives account of the main events in their reception history. The author addresses edition aesthetics, from musical work ontology through national aspects of reception and recontextualisation strategies to the role of women in Chopin editing and axiological aspects of editions.

Autorentext
Wojciech Bonkowski specialises in performance and reception studies. He holds a PhD in musicology with a dissertation on editions of Chopin's works in C19. He has also written on computer-assisted performance analysis, historical pianos, and Chopin's food and drink.

Inhalt

Editions of Chopin's works as cultural texts and events in reception history New typology of musical editions, based on 140 sources Genre & geographical distribution of editions National aspects of reception Editorial strategies of recontextualisation The role of women in Chopin editing Axiological aspects of editions Forewords to major Chopin editions