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Erard : a passion for the piano / Robert Adelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adelson, Robert, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Piano--History--18th century.
- Piano.
- Erard, Sebastien, 1752-1831.
- Erard, Sebastien.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This text shows how the Erard piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late eighteenth century and continuing into the final decades of the nineteenth.
- Contents:
- Making a harpsichord sound like a piano
- Founding a workshop
- Square pianos and piano-organs
- A modern business
- Harps, the Revolution and London
- The French grand piano
- Gifts for Haydn, Beethoven and many others
- Financial struggles
- Faster and louder : the double-escapement action
- Liszt and the introduction of the new piano
- Piano wars
- Family strains and secrets
- Mendelssohn and the Erards
- Passing the flame
- Camille Erard and the end of the Erard Empire.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756533-6
- 0-19-756534-4
- 0-19-756532-8
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