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Clementi and the woman at the piano - Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London (Paperback)
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Clementi and the woman at the piano - Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022:06
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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. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The difficult passages
contained in this opus are unique amongst keyboard music published
for a market that was understood at the time to consist almost
entirely of female amateur keyboardists. 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. 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 music and helps to underline
important changes in Enlightenment culture and keyboard practice.
Clementi's activities initiated the now familiar and modern
concepts of repetitive musical practice, the work-concept,
virtuosity itself, and the division between amateur and
professional. Additionally, Clementi promotes a radical new mode of
expression for female pianists that is at first highly
controversial but slowly gains acceptance due to a widespread
promotion of his music, instruments, and methods. Clementi's career
is in many respects a perfect case study for the tensions between
Enlightenment thinking and new Romantic ideologies.
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