Towards a new history of the piano
Subtitle: a context for the work of Johann Andreas Stein as a piano maker
By: Michael Latcham
Series: Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften -- 53; Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften -- 53.
Publisher: Musikverlag Bernd Katzbichler
Published: 2019
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9783873972704
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Piano; Construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-383) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction; title: Pantaleon Hebenstreit --; title: Bartolomeo Cristofori --; title: Hebenstreit and Cristofori in Stein's notebook --; title: Pascal Taskin as a harpsichord maker --; title: The Cembalo Angelico --; title: Vincenzio Sodi --; title: John Joseph Merlin --; title: Jacques Joachim Swanen --; title: The keyboard instruments of Queen Maria Bárbara of Spain --; title: Paolo Morellati --; title: Christoph Gottlieb Schröter --; title: Pianos and harpsichords at the court of Frederick the Great --; title: Gottfried Silbermann as a piano maker --; title: Wahi Friedrich Fickert and Jacob Adlung --; title: Frantz Jacob Spath and Christoph Friedrich Schmahl --; title: Johann Heinrich Silbermann and his brothers --; title: Johann Heinrich Silbermann, maker of harpsichords and pianos --; title: Johann Andreas Stein, eclectic inventor --; title: Johann David Schiedmayer, plain hammers and a variety of stops --; title: Knee levers and pedals; Burkat Shudi, Jacob Kirkman and others --; title: Pianos in London in the eighteenth century --; title: Pianos in Paris in the eighteenth century --; title: Sébastien Erard ---- Epilogue-- Index nominum-- Index rerum-- Bibliography.