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By (author) Todd R. Larry

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First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Musicfocuses 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.

Table of contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Contributors1. The Piano and the Nineteenth CenturyLeon Plantinga 2. Orthodoxies, Paradoxes, and Contradictions: Performance Practices in Nineteenth-Century Piano MusicRobert S. Winter3. BeethovenWilliam Kinderman4. The Piano Works of SchubertEva Badura-Skoda5. In Defense of Weber Michael C. Tusa6. Piano Music Reformed: The Case of Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyR. Larry Todd7. Hearing Poland: Chopin and NationalismJeffrey Kallberg8. Schumann and the Marketplace: From Butterflies to HausmusikAnthony Newcomb9. From the Concert Hall to the Salon: The Piano Music of Clara Wieck, Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, Marion Wilson Kimber10. Brahms: From Classical to Modern, Walter Frisch11. Expressive Resonance in Liszt”s Piano Music, Dolores Pesce Index

Biographical note:

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