The Pianoforte in the Classical Era

• Author(s): Michael Cole,
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Pages: 398
• ISBN_10: 0198166346
  ISBN_13: 9780198166344
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / History & Criticism , Music / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard , Music / Printed Music / Opera & Classical Scores , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This book charts the progress of the piano and related instruments during the lifetimes of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Wherever possible the author returns to the original sources--a wide variety of previously unreported documents, as well as surviving instruments--to reconstruct the history of the pianoforte that radically departs from earlier theories of many of the most fundamental issues. A wide range of instruments, each carefully described, is placed in a precise chronological and cultural setting. New insights are offered into the parameters that governed the performance of keyboard music in the Classical Era.