The Art of the Piano
Subtitle: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings Revised and Expanded Edition
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 693
ISBN-13: 9781574670882
Subjects: Keyboard instruments; Pianists; Music/Songbooks; Music; Theater - General; Piano; Musical Instruments - Piano; Songbooks - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Genres & Styles - Classical; Bio-bibliography; Performance
First sentence: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW wrote, "The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of the printing press was to poetry."