The Lives of the Piano : A Consideration, a Celebration, a History, and a Genealogy of Pianos and Their Friends - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030579740 ISBN 13: 9780030579745

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1981

Synopsis

A thoroughly fascinating study of the piano in 8 chapters each one by a different author. The author may be writing as a social historian, a piano builder, a piano technician, a piano composer, or concert pianist. There are 250 illustrations photographs- even one of Van Cliburn and James Levine playing a duet when they were about twelve years old. There are numerous essays from Anthony Burgess, Dominique Browning, Annalyn Swan, Anthony Liversidge, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, Samuel Lipman, & Richard Sennett. Chapters 1.The Well-Tempered Revolution - a consideration of the piano's social & intellectual history by Anthony Burgess 2.Enlightenment's gift to the age of romance - How the piano came to be by Annalyn Swan 3.Of wood & iron wrought - the making of a Bosendorfer by Anthony Liversidge 4.Finding the sound - Portrait of a master technician by Dominique Browning 5.Beyond playing - A composer's life with the piano by Ned Rorem 6.Song & Dance - The American way of pianism by William Bolcom 7.The ordeal of growth - confession of a former prodigy by Samuel Lipman 8.Pianist in their time - A Memoir by Richard Sennett

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0030579740
• ISBN 13: 9780030579745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Editor: James R. Gaines