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Grand piano

Title
Grand piano / Sidney Harrison.
Author
Harrison, Sidney.
Publication
London : Faber, 1976.

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Description
272 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Piano
  • Piano music > History and criticism
  • Pianists > Biography
  • pianos
  • Pianists
  • Piano music
  • Piano's
  • Pianomuziek
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
A great invention -- In principle -- Ancestry -- The defeat of the harpsichord -- New music for the new instrument -- The piano meets Mozart -- Mozart meets Clementi -- The great mogul -- The piano promotor -- The piano sings, dances and goes to war -- Four geniuses at once -- Getting on in the world -- 'Con amore' -- Chopinski -- The new piano-makers and their customers -- He that should come -- An American girl learns from Liszt -- How to make a pianist -- A thousand kinds of Bach -- No more rules of harmony -- Strange pianos and argumentative teachers -- Pianos play themselves -- The final romantics -- Treat it rough -- Despite everything -- Teachers of the world unite! -- Before the public -- Take care -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0571103863
  • 9780571103867
LCCN
77356887
OCLC
  • ocm03070087
  • 3070087
  • SCSB-14282336
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library