Towards a new history of the piano : a context for the work of Johann Andreas Stein as a piano maker / Michael Latcham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latcham, Michael, author.

Series:

Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften ; 53.

Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Johann Andreas, 1728-1792.

Stein, Johann Andreas.

Piano--Construction.

Piano.

Physical Description:

383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

München : Musikverlag Bernd Katzbichler, [2019]

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Pantaleon Hebenstreit

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Hebenstreit and Cristofori in Stein's notebook

Pascal Taskin as a harpsichord maker

The Cembalo Angelico

Vincenzio Sodi

John Joseph Merlin

Jacques Joachim Swanen

The keyboard instruments of Queen Maria Bárbara of Spain

Paolo Morellati

Christoph Gottlieb Schröter

Pianos and harpsichords at the court of Frederick the Great

Gottfried Silbermann as a piano maker

Wahi Friedrich Fickert and Jacob Adlung

Frantz Jacob Spath and Christoph Friedrich Schmahl

Johann Heinrich Silbermann and his brothers

Johann Heinrich Silbermann, maker of harpsichords and pianos

Johann Andreas Stein, eclectic inventor

Johann David Schiedmayer, plain hammers and a variety of stops

Knee levers and pedals; Burkat Shudi, Jacob Kirkman and others

Pianos in London in the eighteenth century

Pianos in Paris in the eighteenth century

Sébastien Erard

Epilogue

Index nominum

Index rerum

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-383) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783873972704

3873972700

OCLC:

1140940702

Publisher Number:

9783873972704