From the Editors

Abstract

We hereby present the ninth volume in the series Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, entitled 1810-1910-2010: Chopin’s Shadow. Transformations of the composer’s image in culture and the arts. As the title indicates – its first part is indebted to a poem by the once exceptionally popular Young Poland poet Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer – our interest was aroused more by the resonance of his music in the history of culture as broadly understood than by the composer’s actual oeuvre, around which an imposing, multi-storeyed library of Chopin scholarship has already been erected.