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Why has Chopin achieved such legendary status? Robert Fleitz and Tonebase Artists such as Garrick Ohlsson, Seymour Bernstein, Emanuel Ax, Henry Kramer, and Jarred Dunn go on a journey through Chopin's life and the legends that have emerged around him to find out.

Written, Edited and Hosted by Robert Fleitz   / rfleitz  

00:00 Who is this person?!
02:30 The Tortured Romantic
05:45 The Idealistic Pianist
08:45 Is Chopin "too listenable"?
10:49 The Spirit of the Nation
13:37 A Legend for All Circumstances

Narration:

Maxwell Foster (@maxfoster6274), Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (@magdalenaNYC), Tom Robak (@trobak) Evan Shinners (@wtfbach), Jakob Schmidt (@tonebase), and Steve Payet

References:

Tonebase Lessons

Emanuel Ax on Interpreting Chopin
Seymour Bernstein on Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4
Michelle Cann on Ballade No. 3
Jared Dunn on Etude Op. 25 No. 7
Fei-Fei on Prelude Op. 28 No. 16
Gary Graffman on Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
Claire Huangci on Nocturne in B-flat Major, Op. 9 No.1
Claire Huangci on Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9 No.2
Asiya Korepanova on Ballade No. 4
Henry Kramer on Etude Op. 10 No. 2
Norman Krieger on Etude Op. 25 No. 1
Marina Lomazov on Etude Op. 10 No. 8
Garrick Ohlsson on Chopin and Brahms
Garrick Ohlsson on Barcarolle Op. 60
Garrick Ohlsson on Ballade No. 1, Op. 23
Leann Osterkamp on Fantasie-Impromptu
Rebecca Penneys on Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2
Evan Shinners on Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Major
Arie Vardi on Polyphony and Poly-melody in Chopin

Books and Articles:

Ewelina Boczkowska, “Chopin’s Ghosts"
Nicholas Cook “Theorizing Musical Meaning”
Sarah Reichardt Ellis and Michael Lee, “Monsters, Meaning, and the Music of Chopin in American Horror Cinema of the 1930s and ’40s”
Jeffrey Kallberg, “Ballades without Words”
Jeffrey Kallberg, “Hearing Poland: Chopin and Nationalism” in “Piano Music in the Nineteenth Century”
Catherine Kautsky, “Sand and Chopin: The Mysterious Liaison”
Michael Klein, “Chopin’s Fourth Ballade as Musical Narrative”
James Parakilas, “Disrupting the Genre: Unforseen Personifications in Chopin”
Charles Rosen, “The Romantic Generation”
Jim Samson, “The Four Ballades”
Jim Samson, “Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek [Frédéric François]” in Grove Music Online
Jim Samson, “Romanticism” in Grove Music Online
Richard Taruskin, “Self and Other”, Chapter 7 in Music in the Nineteenth Century
Alan Walker, “Chopin: The Voice of the Piano”
Thomas B. Yee, “Narrating Near-Death Experience: Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude as an Interpretive Key in Eternal Sonata”
Dorota Zakrewska, “Alienation and Powerlessness: Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballady and Chopin’s Ballades”
Encyclopedia Britannica, “Adam Mickiewicz”
Encyclopedia Britannica, “November Insurrection”

Films, Video Games and Other Media:

“Dracula’s Daughter” (1936)
“Impromptu” (1991)
“La Note Bleue” (1991)
“Eternal Sonata” (2007)

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