Part I The growth of a style : Piano music and the public concert 1800-1850 / Janet Ritterman -- The nocturne : development of a new style / David Rowland -- The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents / Simon Finlow -- Tonal architecture in the early music / John Rink -- Part II : Profiles of the music : Extended forms : the ballades, scherzos and fantasies / Jim Samson -- Small 'forms' : in defence of the prelude / Jeffrey Kallberg -- Beyond the dance / Adrian Thomas -- The sonatas / Anatole Leikin -- Part III Reception : Chopin in performance / James Methuen-Campbell -- Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland / Zofia Chechlinska -- Victorian attitudes to Chopin / Derek Carew -- Chopin's influence on the fin de siècle and beyond / Roy Howat

1. Chopin
2. Frederic
3. 1810-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation
4. Chopin
5. Frederic
6. 1810-1849. Piano music