The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons

From Scarlatti to Beethoven

Eva Badura-Skoda (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2017
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02263-9 (ISBN)

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In the late 17th century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of 18th-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers.

Eva Badura-Skoda, noted musicologist, publishes extensively on the history of the piano and on performance practices of the 18th and 19th centuries. She is author of The History of the Pianoforte: A Documentary in Sound and coauthor (with Paul Badura-Skoda) of Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Works.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bartolomeo Cristofori
2. Giving Cristofori's nuovo cimbalo a Name: Terminology Problems throughout the Eighteenth Century
3. Domenico Scarlatti
4. New inventions in Germany, Pantalone Instruments, and Gottfried Silbermann
5. Johann Sebastian Bach and the "Piano et Forte"
6. Pianoforte Builders in Germany around 1750
7. The Generation of Bach's Older Sons
8. From Alberti, Platti, and Rutini to Eckard and the Younger Sons of Bach
9. Developments in the Second Half of the Century: Johann Andreas Stein and Sébastien Erard
10. Joseph Haydn-Wenzel and Johann Schantz, Young Mozart and Nannette Stein
11. Anton Walter and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12. From Broadwood, Merlin, and Clementi to Beethoven
Epilogue
Appendix: Scipione Maffei's Article of 1711
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	81 Printed music items; 25 Halftones, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
ISBN-10	0-253-02263-0 / 0253022630
ISBN-13	978-0-253-02263-9 / 9780253022639
Zustand	Neuware