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

Other author Todd, R. Larry, editor.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2004.
Descriptionxvi, 468 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Subjects

Variant title 19th-century piano music
SeriesRoutledge studies in musical genres
Routledge studies in musical genres. ^A562992
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 -- From the concert hall to the salon: the piano music of Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel / Marian Wilson Kimber -- Brahms: from classical to modern / Walter Frisch -- Expressive resonance in Liszt's piano music / Dolores Pesce.
Abstract The piano was the musical instrument of choice in the nineteenth century, when it emerged as an enduring symbol of virtuosity, domesticity, respectability, and sentimentality. As familiar as the magisterial achievements of Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann were for the instrument, their piano music must be understood in the context of the evolution of the instrument and its various roles in culture and society. The second edition of this book offers contextual essays, illuminating studies of the principal composers of piano music during the period, and a new examination of two leading women composers, Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003058687
ISBN0415968909 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415943620