Congratulations to Dr. Halina Goldberg whose article, “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” is featured in the Journal of American Musicology. Dr. Goldberg’s article addresses the presence of musical compositions and inscriptions from Romantic-era music enthusiasts and composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Wieck Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn Hensel, Liszt, and Chopin, in friendship albums. She illuminates how musical and textual contributions interacted within the Romantic culture of collectorship. The article investigates how contributed compositions and musical fragments were shaped in the context of gift exchange in addition to how albums created a space for uncensored political and national discourse. (Click here to access the article!)
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