Text in english. Text Book and Sacred. 600 pages.
Traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century; discusses all the instruments -- organ, harpsichord, clavichord, piano; quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books; includes full chapters on Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt; has major sections on the great performers and composers from Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff; Belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher!
* traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century
* discusses all the instruments - organ, harpsichord, clavichord, piano
* quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books
* contains full chapters on Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt
* includes major sections on great performers and composers from Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff
* belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher
This book is a model for an investigative approach to keyboard playing… Harald Vogel
…a boon for all up-to-date keyboard players... Christopher Hogwood
Introduction 1
Chronology 1
A Brief History of the Keyboard 4
Tuning and Temperament 5
Notation 6
Clavier 7
Organ 7
Hurdy-gurdy 9
Chekker 9
Clavichord 9
Harpsichord 11
Piano 12
Practicing 15
Improvisation 16
Articulation 17
Chapter 1
Early Keyboard Playing in Germany and The Netherlands 19
Conrad Paumann (c.1410–73) 19
Arnolt Schlick (c. 1460–c. 1521) 20
Hans Buchner (1483-1538) 23
Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach (c.1530–1597) 25
Keyboard Collections from the Early Seventeenth Century (1599–1641) 27
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) 31
Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654) 32
Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595–1663) 33
Chapter 2
Early Keyboard Playing in Spain 35
Juan Bermudo (c. 1510–after 1559) 35
Luys Venegas de Henestrosa (c. 1510–1570) 38
Tomás de Sancta María (c. 1510–1570) 39
Antonio de Cabezón (1510–1566) 43
Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584–1654) 44
Pablo Nassarre (c.1654–c.1730) 46
Chapter 3
Early Keyboard Playing in England 49
Robertsbridge Codex 49
The Virginalists 50
Priscilla Bunbury’s Virginal Book 54
Henry Purcell (1659–95) 55
François de Prendcourt (c. 1640–1725) 57
Peter Prelleur (1705–1741) . 58
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) 60
Niccolò Pasquali (c. 1718–1757) 63
Robert Falkener 65
Chapter 4
Early Keyboard Playing in Italy 67
Faenza Codex (c. 1430) 67
Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554-after 1610) 68
Adriano Banchieri (1568–1634) . 76
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) 77
Other Italian Treatises . 81
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725) 82
Gaetano Greco (c.1657–c. 1728) 85
Francesco Gasparini (1668–1727) 86
Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja (1671–1755) . 86
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) 89
Vincenzo Manfredini (1737–1799) 92
Table of Contents
Chapter 5
French Classic Keyboard Playing - 93
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) - 96
Jean Denis (c. 1600–1672) - 97
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (c. 1623–1714) - 98
André Raison (before 1650-1719) - 100
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601 or 02–1672) - 103
Monsieur de Saint Lambert (fl. 1700) - 104
François Couperin (1668-1733) - 108
Jean-François Dandrieu (c. 1682–1738) - . 115
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - . 116
Michel Corrette (1709–1795) - 119
Chapter 6
German Keyboard Playing at the Time of Bach - 121
Brasov Tablature (1680–84) - 121
Daniel Speer (1636–1707) - 123
The Wegweiser (1689) - 125
Johann Baptist Samber (1654–1717) - 128
Franz Anton Maichelbeck (1702–1750) - 131
Philipp Christoph Hartong (1706–1776) - 132
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718–1795) - 135
Chapter 7
Johann Sebastian Bach - 141
Biography - 141
Bach the Performer - 143
Bach and the Organ - 146
Orgelbüchlein - 147
Bach the Teacher - 149
Chapter 8
Clavichord and Harpsichord to Fortepiano - 157
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) - 157
Georg Simon Löhlein (1725–1781) - 167
Franz Paul Rigler (1747 or 48–1796) - . 170
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792) - 172
Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813) - 174
The Transition to the Piano in France - 179
The Transition to the Piano in England - 185
Josef Haydn (1732–1809) - 187
Chapter 9
The First Pianists - 191
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) - 191
Johann Peter Milchmeyer (1750–1813) - 199
Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel (1756–1823) - 205
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) - 206
Ignace Pleyel (1757–1831) - 209
Muzio Clementi (1752–1832) - 211
Andreas Streicher (1761–1833) - 215
Nannette Stein Streicher (1769–1833) - 215
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt (1765–1823) - 217
William Seaman Stevens (b.1778) - 221
John Baptist Cramer (1771–1858) - 224
Chapter 10
Ludwig van Beethoven - 227
Early Life - 227
Beethoven and the Organ - 227
Early Manhood - 228
Beethoven the Pianist - 229
Beethoven and the Development of the Piano - 233
Beethoven’s Use of the Pedals - 235
Beethoven the Teacher - 238
Beethoven and Piano Technique - 241
Beethoven’s Fingerings - 243
Annotations to the Cramer Études - 250
Beethoven and Ornamentation - 256
Carl Czerny On the Proper Performance of Beethoven’s Works for the Piano 257
Chapter 11
Contemporaries of Beethoven - 261
Friedrich Starke (1774–1835) - . 261
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) - 266
“A Letter to a Young Piano Forte Player” - 272
August Leopold Crelle (1780–1855) - 273
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) - . 275
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) - 278
Carl Czerny (1791–1857) - 283
Chapter 12
Mendelssohn and Friends - . 295
Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870) - 295
Moscheles the Pianist - 297
Moscheles the Teacher - 298
The Méthode des méthodes de piano - 300
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) - 304
Mendelssohn the Pianist - 306
Mendelssohn the Organist - 309
Mendelssohn and the Piano - 310
Mendelssohn the Teacher - . 310
Mendelssohn’s Piano Music - 311
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847) - 316
Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885) - 317
William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875) - 317
Chapter 13
The Schumann Circle - 321
Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873) - 321
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) - 327
Studien für das Pianoforte - . 329
Preface - 330
Album for the Young - 337
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896) - 341
Clara Schumann and the Piano - 346
Mme Schumann the Teacher - . 346
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) 348
Brahms the Pianist - 349
Brahms and the Piano - . 352
Brahms the Teacher - 352
Studien für Pianoforte - . 354
51 Exercises - 358
Chapter 14
Frédéric Chopin - 359
Biography - 359
Chopin at the Piano - 363
Chopin’s Pianos - 366
Chopin the Teacher - 366
“Sketch for a Method” - 369
Chopin and Piano Technique - 371
Chapter 15
Franz Liszt - 375
Biography - 375
Liszt the Pianist - 380
Liszt’s Instruments - 383
Liszt and the Organ - 384
Liszt the Teacher - 385
Liszt and Piano Technique - 390
Chapter 16—Virtuosi - . 397
Sigismund Thalberg (1812–1871) - 397
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869) - . 401
Carl Tausig (1841–1871) - . 406
Hans von Bülow (1830–1894) - 407
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) - 409
Chapter 17
French Pianism - 419
Louis Adam (1758–1848) - . 419
Hélène de Montgeroult (1764–1836) - . 423
Frédéric Kalkbrenner (1785–1849) - . 425
Franz Hünten (1793–1878) - . 430
Henri Herz (1806–1888) - . 432
Camille Stamaty (1811–1870) - 434
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) - 435
Antoine François Marmontel (1816–1898) - 438
César Franck (1822–1890) - 438
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) - 441
Louis Diémer (1843–1919) - . 443
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) - 443
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) - 445
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) - . 450
Chapter 18
Russian Pianism - 453
Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894) - 453
Vassily Ilyitch Safonoff (1852–1918) - . 459
Aleksandr Skryabin (1872–1915) - 462
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) - . 464
Josef Lhévinne (1874–1944) - 468
Chapter 19
Pedagogues - 473
Johann Bernhard Logier (1777–1846) - . 473
Louis Plaidy (1810–1874) - 475
Adolf Henselt (1814–1889) - . 477
Theodor Kullak (1818–1882) - 480
Adolph Kullak (1823–1862) - 480
Sigismund Lebert (1821–1884) - 483
Ludwig Stark (1831–1884) - 483
Ludwig Deppe (1828–1890) - 486
William Mason (1829–1908) - 491
Theodor Leschetizky (1830–1915) - . 498
Chapter 20
A Separate Technique for the Organ - . 505
Johann Samuel Petri (1738–1808) - 506
Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813) - 509
Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809) - . 510
Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752–1817) - 511
Jean-Paul Martini (1741–1816 - . 512
Johann Gottlob Werner (1777–1822) - 512
Jacques-Claude-Adolphe Miné (1796–1854) - 513
Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846) - 514
Gustav Adolf Merkel (1827–1885) - . 515
Jacques Lemmens (1823–1881) - 516
Bibliography - 523
Index - 537