The Cambridge companion to Chopin

• Chronology

• Myth and reality: a biographical introduction

• Part I
• The Growth of a Style

• 1
• Piano music and the public concert, 1800-1850 Janet Ritterman

• 2
• The nocturne: development of a new style David Rowland

• 3
• The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents Simon Finlow

• 4
• Tonal architecture in the early music John Rink

• Part II
• Profiles of the Music

• 5
• Extended forms: the ballades, scherzos and fantasies Jim Samson

• 6
• Small 'forms': in defence of the prelude Jeffrey Kallberg

• 7
• Beyond the dance Adrian Thomas

• 8
• The sonatas Anatole Leikin

• Part III
• Reception

• 9
• Chopin in performance James Methuen-Campbell

• 10
• Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland Zofia Chechlinska

• 11
• Victorian attitudes to Chopin Derek Carew

• 12
• Chopin's influence on the fin de siecle and beyond Roy Howat

• Appendix: a historical survey of Chopin on disc James Methuen-Campbell

• Notes

• List of Chopin's works

• Bibliographical note

• Index