The eighteenth-century fortepiano grand and its patrons from Scarlatti to Beethoven / Eva Badura-Skoda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badura-Skoda, Eva, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano--History--18th century.

Piano.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In the late 17th century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument for his 'cembalo che fa il piano e forte', which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Collecting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of 18th-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers.

Contents:

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Giving Cristofori's nuovo cimbalo a name: terminology problems throughout the eighteenth century

Domenico Scarlatti

New inventions in Germany, pantalone instruments, and Gottfried Silbermann

Johann Sebastian Bach and the "piano et forte"

Pianoforte builders in Germany around 1750

The generation of Bach's older sons

From Alberti, Platti, and Rutini to Eckard and the younger sons of Bach

Developments in the second half of the century: Johann Andreas Stein and Sebastien Erard

Joseph Haydn-Wenzel and Johann Schantz, young Mozart and Nannette Stein

Anton Walter and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

From Broadwood, Merlin, and Clementi to Beethoven

Epilogue

Appendix: Scipione Maffei's article of 1711.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253022646

0253022649

OCLC:

985447782