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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellsworth, Therese Marie.

Contributor:

Wollenberg, Susan.

Series:

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Piano.

Piano music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.

Piano music.

Pianists--Great Britain.

Pianists.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Piano music.

Physical Description:

xix, 270 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754661431

9780754661436

OCLC:

77767166