Between Romanticism and Modernism ─ Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Compositional Oeuvre

Raba presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the work and legacy of Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The author has organized the main body of his text in six chapters devoted to Paderewski’s early romantic output between historicism and folklorism, his early romantic output while under the influence of Berlin academicism and the national tradition, his mature romantic output, his stylistic polarization in the face of modernist trends, and his aesthetics. Boguslaw Raba is a faculty member of the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Boguslaw Raba is a musicologist and concert-organist. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw (Poland) majoring in Music Theory and Organ. Afterwards he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Music and is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Musicology of the University of Wroclaw.