Recensione:
ending with a fascinating chapter on owners, dealers and prices. The book provides as much information about social history as about music, and this last chapter provides gems of both. (Harpsichord & fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001)
One of the strengths of the book is that it deals with clavichords and harpsichords as well as pianos, which means that Maunder's conclusions have a greater breadth than less inclusive studies (Harpsichord & fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001)
invaluable as source-material ... much new information (Harpsichord & fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001)
Maunder's well-presented book is a concise essay that radically alters our notions about Viennese instruments (Harpsichord & fortepiano, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2001)
outstanding ... Richard Maunder's thorough account covers harpsichord, piano, and clavicord. Like most books of this type, it delivers both a micro- and a macromessage ... Maunder provides much of his data, with more than one hundred pages of tables and appendixes. This is valuable material and Clarendon Press should be commended for allowing its inclusion. (Edward L Kottick, Notes September 1999)
Packed with the facts about the existing keyboards for which Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven composed, this is a modest exercise in 'micro-history' ... (S. Glickman, Franklin and Marshall College, CHOICE June 99)
Contenuti:
- Preface
- A note on Eighteenth-Century Viennese measures, currency, and addresses
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Terminology
- 3: Viennese Keyboard-Instrument Makers
- 4: Harpsichords, Spinets, and Clavichords
- 5: Fortepianos
- 6: Music and Instruments before 1770
- 7: Music and Instruments 1770-1800
- 8: Owners, Dealers, and Prices
- Appendix 1. Advertisements for Keyboard Instruments 1721-1800
- Appendix 2. Viennese Keyboard-Instrument Makers 1700-1800
- Appendix 3. Owners and Sellers 1700-1800
- Appendix 4. Advertisements for Keyboard Music 1725-84
- Bibliography
- Index
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