piano in nineteenth-century British culture
Subtitle: instruments, performers and repertoire
By: edited by Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg.
Contributors: Wollenberg, Susan.
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754661436
Subjects: Piano -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Piano music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Pianists -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg; title: That domestic and long-suffering instrument : the piano boom in nineteenth-century Belfast / Roy Johnston; title: Most ingenious, most learned, and yet practicable work : the English reception of Bach's Well-tempered clavier in the first half of the nineteenth century seen through the editions published in London / Yo Tomita; title: The faces of Parnassus : towards a new reception of Muzio Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum / Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald; title: Mendelssohnian allusions in the early piano works of William Sterndale Bennett / R. Larry Todd; title: William Sterndale Bennett, composer and pianist / Peter Horton; title: Victorian pianists as concert artists : the case of Arabella Goddard (1836-1922) / Therese Ellsworth; title: Origins of the piano recital in England, 1830-1870 / Janet Ritterman and William Weber; title: Remarkable force, finish, intelligence and feeling : reassessing the pianism of Walter Bache / Michael Allis; title: Fanny Davies : a messenger from Schumann and Brahms? / Dorothy de Val; title: Three Oxford pianistic careers : Donald Francis Tovey, Paul Victor Mendelssohn Benecke, and Ernest Walker / Susan Wollenberg.