Music in Chopin's Warsaw2008

"Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth - largely unknown to the English-speaking world - and places Chopin's early works in the context of this milieu. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and musical circumstances. Chopin's Warsaw emerges as a vibrant European city that was home to an Opera house, various smaller theaters, one of the earliest modern conservatories in Europe, several societies that organized concerts, musically active churches, spirited salon life, music publishers and bookstores, instrument builders, and for a short time even a weekly paper devoted to music."

"Warsaw was aware of and in tune with the most recent European styles and...