Between romanticism and modernism

• Chapter 1
• Work and Oeuvre
• p. 13

• Between romanticism and modernism
• p. 14

• Style
• p. 17

• The social-national dimension of creative output
• p. 17

• Character of the sources
• p. 19

• State of research
• p. 20

• Periodisation of the oeuvre
• p. 25

• Chapter 2
• Early Romantic Output (i): Between Historicism and Folklorism (1876-84)
• p. 31

• 2.1
• The compositional interpretation of Romantic historicism
• p. 31

• 2.2
• From salon convention to personal lyric - the early instrumental miniature
• p. 40

• 2.3
• Folklore in the national spirit: Danses polonaises, Op 5 and Op. 9
• p. 45

• Chapter 3
• Early Romantic Output (ii): in the Shackles of Berlin Academicism and the National Tradition (1882-84)
• p. 53

• 3.1
• In the sphere of the Chopin-Moniuszko tradition - Viet Lieder, Op. 7 and 'Maienblume'
• p. 53

• 3.2
• Around a Romantic topic - between Schumannian Charakterstück and Lisztian programme
• p. 64

• 3.3
• The idea of syncretic form - the Variations et fugue in A minor, Op. 11
• p. 75

• 3.4
• Source folklore in the national spirit or salon-style musique orientate? The Tatra Album, Op. 12
• p. 79

• 3.5
• Berlin academicism and national style - chamber and orchestral works
• p. 97

• Chapter 4
• Mature Romantic Output (1884-96)
• p. 105

• 4.1
• Relative historicism: stile antico - stile moderno - Humoresques de concert, Op. 14
• p. 105

• 4.2
• A synthesis of the lyrical and the narrative in a cyclic form, Miscellanea. Série de morceaux pour piano, Op. 16; Canzone
• p. 113

• Légende in A flat major, Légende in A major
• p. 114

• Mélodie in G flat major, Nocturne in B flat major, Canzone
• p. 118

• Thème varié, Op. 16 No. 3
• p. 122

• Un moment musical in A flat major, Minuet in A major
• p. 124

• 4.3
• Between the national and the universal in a large cyclic work
• p. 125

• Thematic virtuosity - the Sonata in A minor, Op. 13
• p. 126

• Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17 - a Schumannesque pendant?
• p. 129

• Violin Concerto in G minor (sketches)
• p. 135

• An apology of Polish folklore - the Fantaisie polonaise sur des thèmes originaux pour piano et orchestre, Op. 19
• p. 139

• 4.4
• Romantic inspirations of the modernist watershed
• p. 146

• Six Songs for voice and piano, Op. 18
• p. 146

• Dam le désert. Tableau musical en forme dune toccata, Op. 15
• p. 155

• Chapter 5
• Stylistic Polarisation in the Face of Modernist Trends (1893-1909)
• p. 161

• 5.1
• Manru. Lyrisches Drama, Op. 20 - eclecticism or syncretism?
• p. 161

• From Manolo to Manru - genesis
• p. 162

• The literary original and Alfred Nossig's libretto: structure and ideas
• p. 165

• The symbolic drama and the 'Wagner method'
• p. 174

• Synthetism, eclecticism or stylistic disintegration?
• p. 179

• The conception of Manru in the light of foreign poetics
• p. 182

• Manru as a parallel of the composer's identity?
• p. 185

• 5.2
• On the threshold of a modernist stylistic polarisation: the Sonata in E flat minor, Op. 21 and Variations et fugue in E flat minor, Op. 23
• p. 187

• 5.3
• Chansons à la française or a creative dialogue with French symbolism: the Douze Mélodies, Op. 22 and 'Dans la forêt' to words by Théophile Gautier
• p. 199

• 'Dans la forêt' - the Romantic roots of symbolism
• p. 199

• Douze Mélodies, Op. 22 'the marriage of love and death'
• p. 203

• 5.4
• In memoriam - sursum corda: The 'Polonia' Symphony in B minor, Op. 24
• p. 223

• Specifics of musical narrative
• p. 229

• The symbolism of the semantic code
• p. 230

• Opposition to tyranny and a declaration of unity - a critique of style
• p. 238

• Chapter 6
• Aesthetics
• p. 245

• 6.1
• Views on art
• p. 245

• 6.2
• Concert repertoire
• p. 260

• 6.3
• Creative aesthetic
• p. 266

• 6.3.1
• Paderewski - a regressive modernist?
• p. 266

• 6.3.2
• The individual character of creative output and the universalistic style of the epoch - aesthetic value
• p. 274

• 'Chopin resurrected' - a function of the symbol or a substrate of an individual style?
• p. 274

• The 'War of the Romantics'
• p. 276

• Message
• p. 279

• Nationalism - universalism - cosmopolitanism
• p. 281

• Between the salon and the concert hall
• p. 286

• 6.4
• The significance of the oeuvre of Ignacy Jan Paderewski
• p. 291

• Bibliography
• p. 299

• List of Examples
• p. 313