David Kasunic, PhD
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“The Jena Romantics, Chopin, and the Musical ‘Invention of Self’: Revisiting Robert Schumann’s Reviews of Fryderyk Chopin’s Music,” in Romanticism in Music: Poland in its European Context, ed. Jeffrey Kallberg. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2025.—forthcoming
“The Role of Bellini in the Evolution of Chopin’s Approach to Nocturne Melody,” in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation, ed. Jeffrey A. Swinkin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.—forthcoming
“Chopin as Philosopher,” in The Book of the Fourth International Chopinological Congress, eds. Jim Samon and Jeffrey Kallberg. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2024.—forthcoming
"Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin," Oxford Bibliographies Online—forthcoming in 2024
“Chopin at the Ballet: The Influence of Meyerbeer’s Ballet Music on Chopin’s Parisian Waltzes” in The element of dance in music of the first half of the nineteenth century, ed. Grzegorz Zieziula. 163-175. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2023.
“Empathetic Relistening: In the Time of COVID, David Kasunic Reconsiders Violetta’s Music.” Opera, February 2021.
“The Legacy of Chopin’s Dance: Taglioni, Fokine, Mikuli, and Schenker,” in Chopin 1810-2010: Ideas, Interpretations, Influence, Volume 2, eds. Irena Poniatowska and Zofia Chechliński. 371-387. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2017.
“Revisiting Chopin’s Tubercular Song, or, An Opera in the Making,” in Chopin and his World, eds. Jonathan D. Bellman and Halina Goldberg. 103-121. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
“Tubercular Singing,” Postmodern Culture, 24, no. 3 (May 2014), in a special issue devoted to voice studies, titled “Voice Matters,” guest eds. Annette Schlichter and Nina Sun Eidsheim (went live September 9, 2017). https://www.pomoculture.org/2017/09/09/tubercular-singing/
“Rousseau’s Cat,” in “Rousseau in 2013: Afterthoughts on a Tercentenary,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 66, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 266-270
“On Jewishness and Genre: Eduard Hanslick’s Reception of Gustav Mahler,” in Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression, eds. Nicole Grimes, Siobhán, and Wolfgang Marx. 311-338. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2013.
“Playing Opera at the Piano: Chopin and the Piano-Vocal Score,” in The Sources of Chopin’s Creative Style: Inspirations and Contexts, ed. Artur Szklener. 351-363. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2010.
“The Case for Expressiveness: How Fryderyk Chopin Made Frederick Niecks Reevaluate Programme Music,” in After Chopin: The Influence of the Chopin's Music on European Composers till the First World War, ed. Artur Szklener. 323-335. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, December 2009.
“Chopin’s Musical Disease: Tuberculosis, Music, and Diagnostic Pathology in 1840s France,” in Chopin in Paris: The Last Decade, ed. Artur Skzlener. 115-124. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, December 2008.
“Regarding Chopin: Visual Culture and Musical Genre in 1830s Paris,” in Chopin in Paris: the 1830s, ed. Artur Skzlener. 271-286. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, December 2007.
“Chopin’s Operas,” in Chopin and His Work in the Context of Culture, vol. 2, ed. Irena Poniatowska. 387-403. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2004.