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The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Instruments, Performers and Repertoire (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Instruments, Performers and Repertoire (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas
Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area
of music for the piano during the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries and into developments in the musical life of London, for
a time the centre of piano manufacturing, publishing and
performance. But none has focused on the piano exclusively within
Britain. The eleven chapters in this volume explore major issues
surrounding the instrument, its performers and music within an
expanded geographical context created by the spread of the
instrument and the growth of concert touring. Topics covered
include: the piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a
major provincial town; the reception of Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum during the nineteenth
century; the shift from composer-pianists to pianist-interpreters
in the first half of the century that triggered crucial changes in
piano performance and concert structure; the growth of musical life
in the peripheries outside major musical centres; the pianist as
advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical
repertory; the status of British pianists both in relation to
foreigners on tour in Britain and as welcomed star performers in
outposts of the Empire; marketing forces that had an impact on
piano sales, concerts and piano careers; leading virtuosos, writers
and critics; the important role played by women pianists and the
development of the recording industry, bringing the volume into the
early twentieth century.
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