Nineteenth-Century Piano Music / Edition 2

by R. Larry Todd

Overview

First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and the women composers of the era, particularly focusing on Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415968904
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/12/2004
Series:	Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry Todd is a Professor of Music at Duke University. He is a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Contributors 1. The Piano and the Nineteenth Century Leon Plantinga 2. Orthodoxies, Paradoxes, and Contradictions: Performance Practices in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music Robert S. Winter 3. Beethoven William Kinderman 4. The Piano Works of Schubert Eva Badura-Skoda 5. In Defense of Weber Michael C. Tusa 6. Piano Music Reformed: The Case of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy R. Larry Todd 7. Hearing Poland: Chopin and Nationalism Jeffrey Kallberg 8. Schumann and the Marketplace: From Butterflies to Hausmusik Anthony Newcomb 9. From the Concert Hall to the Salon: The Piano Music of Clara Wieck, Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, Marion Wilson Kimber 10. Brahms: From Classical to Modern, Walter Frisch 11. Expressive Resonance in Liszt's Piano Music, Dolores Pesce Index