The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

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Contents: Foreword, Nicholas Temperley Introduction, Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg 'That domestic and long-suffering instrument': the piano boom in 19th-century Belfast, Roy Johnston 'Most ingenious, most learned, and yet practicable work': the English reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in the first half of the 19th century seen through the editions published in London, Yo Tomita The faces of Parnassus: towards a new reception of Muzio Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum, Rohan Stewart-MacDonald Mendelssohnian allusions in the early piano works of William Sterndale Bennett, R. Larry Todd William Sterndale Bennett, composer and pianist, Peter Horton Victorian pianists as concert artists: the case of Arabella Goddard (1836a 1922), Therese Ellsworth Origins of the piano recital in England, 1830a 1870, Janet Ritterman and William Weber 'Remarkable force, finish, intelligence and feeling': reassessing the pianism of Walter Bache, Michael Allis Fanny Davies: 'a messenger for Schumann and Brahms'?, Dorothy de Val 3 Oxford pianistic careers : Donald Francis Tovey, Paul Victor Mendelssohn Benecke, and Ernest Walker, Susan Wollenberg Index.

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