This book traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century. It discusses all the instruments – organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and piano, including quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books. There are chapters dedicated to Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, and major sections on such great performers and composers as Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff. This book belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 1-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS
CHAPTER 10-LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
CHAPTER 11-CONTEMPORARIES OF BEETHOVEN
CHAPTER 12-MENDELSSOHN AND FRIENDS
CHAPTER 13-THE SCHUMANN CIRCLE
CHAPTER 14-FREDERIC CHOPIN
CHAPTER 15-FRANZ LISZT
CHAPTER 16-VIRTUOSI
CHAPTER 17-PEDAGOGUES
CHAPTER 18-FRENCH PIANISM
CHAPTER 19-RUSSIAN PIANISM
CHAPTER 2-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN SPAIN
CHAPTER 20-A SEPARATE TECHNIQUE FOR THE OPERA
CHAPTER 3-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER 4-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN ITALY
CHAPTER 5-FRENCH CLASSIC KEYBOARD PLAYING
CHAPTER 6-GERMAN KEYBOARD PLAYING AT THE TIME OF BACH
CHAPTER 7-JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
CHAPTER 8-CLAVICHORD AND HARPSICHORD TO FORTEPIANO
