NHK Royal Academy of Music Lectures

Chopin: Asserting Mazurka (1x4)

Udgivelsesdato: Nov 11, 2017

Lecture 4 is about Chopin and his Mazurkas, which are political and give us a window into a psychological process that Chopin was using. We will discuss nationalism and Polish culture, discuss improvisation, and what it's like to be a romantic composer and pianist and how that affected his harmony, then what legacies there are for us as contemporary musicians.