Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Instruments, Performers and Repertoire

Zusatztext 'Anyone interested in the piano and piano music will find much to enjoy here...' The Delian Informationen zum Autor Susan Wollenberg Zusammenfassung Explores major issues surrounding the piano. This work includes topics such as: piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the pianist as advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical repertory; and the important role played by women pianists and development of the recording industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword! Nicholas Temperley; Introduction! Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg; 'That domestic and long-suffering instrument': the piano boom in 19th-century Belfast! Roy Johnston; 'Most ingenious! most learned! and yet practicable work': the English reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in the first half of the 19th century seen through the editions published in London! Yo Tomita; The faces of Parnassus: towards a new reception of Muzio Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum! Rohan Stewart-MacDonald; Mendelssohnian allusions in the early piano works of William Sterndale Bennett! R. Larry Todd; William Sterndale Bennett! composer and pianist! Peter Horton; Victorian pianists as concert artists: the case of Arabella Goddard (1836-1922)! Therese Ellsworth; Origins of the piano recital in England! 1830-1870! Janet Ritterman and William Weber; 'Remarkable force! finish! intelligence and feeling': reassessing the pianism of Walter Bache! Michael Allis; Fanny Davies: 'a messenger for Schumann and Brahms'?! Dorothy de Val; 3 Oxford pianistic careers : Donald Francis Tovey! Paul Victor Mendelssohn Benecke! and Ernest Walker! Susan Wollenberg; Index.

Summary

Explores major issues surrounding the piano. This work includes topics such as: piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the pianist as advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical repertory; and the important role played by women pianists and development of the recording industry.

Product details

• Authors: Therese Wollenberg Ellsworth, Nicholas Temperley, Therese Ellsworth
• Assisted by: Therese Ellsworth (Editor), Ellsworth Therese (Editor), Susan Wollenberg (Editor), Wollenberg Susan (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2007
• EAN: 9780754661436
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-6143-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Keyboard instruments