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Fantasies of Improvisation - Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music (Hardcover)
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Fantasies of Improvisation - Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music (Hardcover)
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The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in
the postclassical and romantic periods, Free Play: Fantasies of
Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of
improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular
emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing. Case
studies of performers such as Abbe Vogler, J. N. Hummel, Ignaz
Moscheles, Robert Schumann, Carl Loewe, and Franz Liszt describe in
detail the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the
nineteenth century's leading improvisers. Grounded in primary
sources, the book further discusses the reception and valuation of
improvisational performances by colleagues, audiences, and critics,
which prompted many keyboardists to stop improvising. Author Dana
Gooley argues that amidst the decline of improvisational practices
in the first half of the nineteenth century there emerged a strong
and influential "idea" of improvisation as an ideal or perfect
performance. This idea, spawned and nourished by romanticism,
preserved the aesthetic, social, and ethical values associated with
improvisation, calling into question the supposed triumph of the
"work."
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