Strength and Weakness: Gendered Dualities in Chopin\u27s Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61

My thesis examines the ways in which Chopin\u27s music is understood as gendered through an examination of his Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61. I explore the associations of the titular genres with musical gestures perceived as either feminine or masculine, and the ways in which Chopin inverts listeners\u27 gendered expectations. This leads into a discussion on how an understanding of gender in this piece might influence one\u27s performance decisions