"The present collection grew out of the interdisciplinary conference that took place at Indiana University-Bloomington during the 1999 sesquicentennial commemorations of Fryderyk Chopin's death"

Introduction : Chopin then and now : a fantasy / Daniel Stone -- Part I. Memories, images, and dreams: Chopin at home / Bozena Shallcross -- Delacroix's portrait of Chopin as a surrogate self-portrait / John B. Nici -- The monument of Fryderyk Chopin by Wacław Szymanowski : concepts and reality / Waldemar Okoñ -- "Remembering that tale of grief" : the prophetic voice in Chopin's music / Halina Goldberg -- Part II. Analytical perspectives: Idiosyncrasies of phrase rhythm in Chopin's mazurkas / Carl Schachter -- Dance and the music of Chopin : the waltz / Eric McKee -- Chopiniana and music's contextual allusions / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert -- Part III. Gender, genre, genius: "Nuit plus belle qu'un beau jour" : poetry, song, and the voice in the piano nocturne / James Parakilas -- Gender and genius in postrevolutionary France : Chopin and Sand / Whitney Walton --Part IV. Chopin appropriated: Chopin's reception as reflected in nineteenth-century Polish periodicals / Zofia Chechlińska -- The Polish reception of Chopin's biography by Franz Liszt / Irena Poniatowska -- Chopin and the "Polish race" : on national ideologies and the Chopin reception / Maja Trochimczyk -- "A composer known here but to few" : the reception and performance styles of Chopin's music in America, 1839-1900 / Sandra P. Rosenblum.