Cyril Ehrlich

The Piano

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For more than a century the piano occupied a dominant place in music and society. Professor Ehrlich follows its fascinating history from the fortepiano of Mozart's time, through the Victorians' 'household orchestra and god', to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers. His protagonists include barnstorming virtuosi, fashionable ladies and aspiring clerks, the great makers and the back-street 'garrett-masters', distinguished musicians, and hire-purchase touts. Originally published in 1976 by Dent, this book has now been updated and revised by the author in the light of developments of recent years.

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Based on exhaustive research in international archives this definitive and highly acclaimed history of the piano examines its technical and musical background, dealing at the same time with its social and economic importance-including the role designated for it by the Victorians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780198161714
• ISBN-10: 0198161719
• Artikelnr.: 22105878

Autorenporträt

Cyril Ehrlich is author of The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century: A Social History and Harmonious Alliance: A History of the Performing Right Society

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
The Victorian piano
Steinway and the new technology
The emergence of Germany
The British market, 1880-1914
France
The United States
The English industry, 1870-1914
The English piano goes to war
Between the wars
Conclusion
Appendix I - A list of piano makers since 1851
Appendix II - Estimates of production
Appendix III - Exotica
Select Bibliography