Nineteenth-century piano music / edited by R. Larry Todd.

Other author Todd, R. Larry, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1990.
Descriptionxvi, 426 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects

Variant title 19th-century piano music
SeriesStudies in musical genres and repertories
Studies in musical genres and repertories. ^A268936
Contents The piano and the nineteenth century / Leon Plantinga -- Orthodoxies, paradoxes, and contradictions: performance practices in nineteenth-century piano music / Robert S. Winter -- Beethoven / William Kinderman -- The piano works of Schubert / Eva Badura-Skoda -- In defense of Weber / Michael C. Tusa -- Piano music reformed: the case of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / R. Larry Todd -- Hearing Poland: Chopin and nationalism / Jeffrey Kallberg -- Schumann and the marketplace: from butterflies to Hausmusik / Anthony Newcomb -- Brahms: from classical to modern / Walter Frisch -- Expressive resonance in Liszt's piano music / Dolores Pesce.
Abstract This book focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with two chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and the women composers of the era, particularly focusing on Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.
Local noteLittle-287524--305130049423Y
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 90008681
ISBN0028725514 :

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