Clementi and the Woman At the Piano - Virtuosity and the Market for Music in Eighteenth-Century London

Clementi and the woman at the piano: Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London maps the social, musical, and gendered implications of technically difficult keyboard music and helps to underline important changes in Enlightenment culture and keyboard practice. Previously actively discouraged from practicing or improving their skills due to the restrictive ideologies in place, Clementi's music increasingly affords female pianists a new kind of musical expression.

About the author

Erin Helyard has been acclaimed as an inspiring conductor, a virtuosic and expressive performer of the harpsichord and fortepiano, and as a lucid scholar who is passionate about promoting discourse between musicology and performance. He is Artistic Director of the award-winning Pinchgut Opera in Sydney, Australia.

Summary

This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op.

Product details

• Authors: , Erin Helyard, Erin (Artistic Director Helyard
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781800856257
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-625-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford University Studies in t; Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918