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The Influence of Adam Mickiewicz on the Ballades of Chopin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Lubov Keefer
Lubov Keefer*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore
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Were one to confess total ignorance concerning an alleged tie between the Ballades of Chopin and the poetry of his friend-compatriot Adam Mickiewicz, he would be forever ostracized from among musical conoscenti. Only slightly less flagrant an offense would be the omission of Schumann or perhaps Liszt as reported go-betweens. But, while accord has been reached on the poems which provided Chopin with his musical imagery, even Chopin scholars (Karasowski, Ganche, Bidou, Binental, Hadden) would be at a loss to trace the list down to its origins. Yet, so meaty is the whole, so plausible on the surface, so brimming with national-patriotic-romantic potentialities, that each and every Chopinite has succumbed to its lure, varying solely the stress on this or that facet and the reserve brought to bear on it.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 5 , Issue 1-2 , May 1946 , pp. 38 - 50
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1946

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