Chopin po raz dziesiąty. Biografia kompozytora pod piórem literata (z powodu X edycji Chopina Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza)
Chopin for the 10th time. Composer’s biography coming from the pen of a literary man (on the occasion of the 10th edition of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Chopin)

Summary/Abstract: The article concentrates on the newest edition of Chopin by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (2025), a widely-read and popular biography, which got its anniversary 10th edition. The editorial method chosen for this book can cause a change in its reception, putting a stronger accent on the scientific dimension of the text and placing it within the context of the contemporary research on Chopin’s life and oeuvre. In reality however, the strength of the biography written by Iwaszkiewicz are not only broad musicological and historiographical competences of the author, but also literary talent and numerous strategies, thanks to which the narrator interprets the composer’s psyche as well as places the given episodes from his life in the literary and musical contexts. Chopin described in such a way, becomes an element of a complex and multidimensional European culture not only of the 19th but also beginnings of the 20th centuries.

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