The piano in nineteenth-century British culture : instruments, performers and repertoire / edited by Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg ; foreword by Nicholas Temperley
| Author(s): | Ellsworth, Therese Marie |
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| Subjects: | Piano--Great Britain--History--19th century Piano music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism Pianists--Great Britain |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007 |
| Series: | Music in nineteenth-century Britain |
| LC Classification: | M, ML |
| Additional Authors: | Wollenberg, Susan |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2007000577 ISBN: 0754661431 (alk. paper) ISBN: 9780754661436 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Introduction / Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg -- 'That domestic and long-suffering instrument' : the piano boom in nineteenth-century Belfast / Roy Johnston -- 'Most ingenious, most learned, and yet practicable work' : the English reception of Bach's Well-tempered clavier in the first half of the nineteenth century seen through the editions published in London / Yo Tomita -- The faces of Parnassus : towards a new reception of Muzio Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum / Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald -- Mendelssohnian allusions in the early piano works of William Sterndale Bennett / R. Larry Todd -- William Sterndale Bennett, composer and pianist / Peter Horton -- Victorian pianists as concert artists : the case of Arabella Goddard (1836-1922) / Therese Ellsworth -- Origins of the piano recital in England, 1830-1870 / Janet Ritterman and William Weber -- 'Remarkable force, finish, intelligence and feeling' : reassessing the pianism of Walter Bache / Michael Allis -- Fanny Davies : 'a messenger from Schumann and Brahms'? / Dorothy de Val -- Three Oxford pianistic careers : Donald Francis Tovey, Paul Victor Mendelssohn Benecke, and Ernest Walker / Susan Wollenberg |
| Physical Description: | xix, 270 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 77767166 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0754661431 9780754661436 |