The Chopin Games. History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1927-2015

The book presents the history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition narrated from the anthropological-cultural perspective and based on extensive source material, which enabled the authors to explore the less known aspects of one of the most important music competitions in the world.

It is worthy of note that the authors use extensive source material: quotations from press releases (dailies, weeklies, music magazines) and official speeches, excerpts from critical and musicological texts, reviews, memoirs, diaries, official reports, foreign press reports, materials from the Polish Film Chronicle, documentaries, private and official correspondence, advertisements, radio announcements and internet forums. The work undertaken to reach and use the sources and the quotes reflects great credit on the authors.
Professor Waldemar Kuligowski

The book is a pioneering project in many respects. Although there is an extensive factual literature on the Chopin Competition, and numerous anecdotal sources, valuable for analysis, have been published, the history of the Chopin Competition has not been explored from the cultural history perspective and no attempts have been made to present it as a cultural phenomenon sensu stricto, adopting methodological approaches of modern humanities. It is such an attempt that the authors have made in this case.
Professor Krzysztof Moraczewski

Paweł Majewski https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
Conclusion. The Chopin Competition in the Context of Its Times
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.442-445

Paweł Majewski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
Introduction

Kornelia Sobczak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-3909
The 10th Competition. A Rebel’s Triumph. 2nd–19th October 1980
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.238-273

Kornelia Sobczak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-3909
The 11th Competition. Hardliners and Tanks. The Competition at the Crossroads. 30th September–20th October 1985
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.274-301

Paweł Majewski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
The 12th Competition. The Difficult Transition Period. 1st–20th October 1990
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.302-321

Paweł Majewski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
The 13th Competition. Crisis Continues. 1st–22nd October 1995
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.322-338

Marcin Bogucki, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5349-1208
The 14th Competition. Chopin Goes Global. 4th–22nd October 2000
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.339-356

Marcin Bogucki, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5349-1208
The 15th Competition. The Blechacz Craze. 2nd–24th October 2005
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.357-381

Marcin Bogucki, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5349-1208
The 16th Competition. Between Progress and Ressentiment. 2nd–23rd October 2010
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.382-415

Marcin Bogucki, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5349-1208
The 17th Competition. Chopin in the Multiculti Era? 1st–23rd October 2015
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.416-441

Paweł Majewski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
The 1st Competition. The Difficult Beginnings. 23rd–30th January 1927
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.17-42

Paweł Majewski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
The 2nd Competition. Opening Up to the World. 6th–23rd March 1932
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.43-68

Paweł Majewski, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8902-3641
The 3rd Competition. In the Shadow of Imminent War. 21st February–12th March 1937
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.69-113

Ada Arendt, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7149-0156
The 4th Competition. Chopin Hijacked. 15th September–15th October 1949
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.114-136

Ada Arendt, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7149-0156
The 5th Competition. In Jasna Street. 22nd February–21st March 1955
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.137-161

Ada Arendt, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7149-0156
The 6th Competition. A Chopiniade on a Nocturne. 22nd February–13th March 1960
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.162-177

Ada Arendt, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7149-0156
The 7th Competition. The Gombrowicz Edition. 22nd February–13th March 1965
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.178-194

Kornelia Sobczak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-3909
The 8th Competition. (At Last) an Ordinary Competition. 7th–25th October 1970
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.195-214

Kornelia Sobczak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-3909
The 9th Competition. Con amore. 7th–28th October 1975
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548096.pp.215-237