The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.

《剑桥肖邦伴奏》为探索音乐的爱好者提供了对音乐风格的有益见解，这种音乐风格不承认平易近人与世故、流行与重要之间的矛盾。肖邦著名学者的十二篇散文由三部分组成。第一部分论述了肖邦风格在其前辈音乐中的来源以及这一时期的社会历史。第二部分概述了成熟的音乐，第三部分则考虑了音乐的来世——它的接受、批评以及它对后来作曲家作品的创作影响。