Conversations about the cultural and performative context of Chopin’s Mazurkas
Matthew Bengtson, Assistant Professor of Piano Literature, Project Director
Arthur Greene, Professor of Piano
Bohuslava (Slávka) Jelínková, Lecturer of Dance
Christian Matijas-Mecca, Associate Professor of Dance
Filmed at the Duderstadt Digital Media Commons, May 2017
Quote Citations:
“If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in the simple tunes of Chopin mazurkas, he would forbid this music.”
Robert Schumann, in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 4 (1836): 137-39, trans. J. Kallberg in Kallberg, Jeffrey, “Hearing Poland: Chopin and Nationalism” in R. Larry Todd, ed., Nineteenth-Century Piano Music (New York: Routledge, 2004).