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The piano in nineteenth-century British culture : instruments, performers and repertoire / edited by Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg ; foreword by Nicholas Temperley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Music in nineteenth-century BritainPublication details: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.Description: xix, 270 p. : ill., music ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0754661431
  • 9780754661436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 786.20941/09034 22
LOC classification:
  • ML678.4 .P53 2007
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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