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Informationen zum Autor Eva Badura-Skoda, noted musicologist, publishes extensively on the history of the piano and on performance practices of the 18th and 19th centuries. She is author of The History of the Pianoforte: A Documentary in Sound and coauthor (with Paul Badura-Skoda) of Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Works . Klappentext Eva Badura-Skoda, noted musicologist, publishes extensively on the history of the piano and on performance practices of the 18th and 19th centuries. She is author of The History of the Pianoforte: A Documentary in Sound and coauthor (with Paul Badura-Skoda) of Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Bartolomeo Cristofori 2. Giving Cristofori's nuovo cimbalo a Name: Terminology Problems throughout the Eighteenth Century 3. Domenico Scarlatti 4. New inventions in Germany, Pantalone Instruments, and Gottfried Silbermann 5. Johann Sebastian Bach and the " Piano et Forte " 6. Pianoforte Builders in Germany around 1750 7. The Generation of Bach's Older Sons 8. From Alberti, Platti, and Rutini to Eckard and the Younger Sons of Bach 9. Developments in the Second Half of the Century: Johann Andreas Stein and Sébastien Erard 10. Joseph Haydn-Wenzel and Johann Schantz, Young Mozart and Nannette Stein 11. Anton Walter and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 12. From Broadwood, Merlin, and Clementi to Beethoven Epilogue Appendix: Scipione Maffei's Article of 1711 Selected Bibliography Index
