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For more than a century the piano has occupied a dominant place in music and society. Here, Ehrlich traces the instrument's fascinating history from the fortepiano of Mozart's time, and the Victorian's "household orchestra and god," to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers. Updated and revised by the author to include recent developments, this book will captivate musicians, historians, and all lovers of the piano.
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Based on exhaustive research in international archives this definitive and highly acclaimed history of the piano examines its technical and musical background, dealing at the same time with its social and economic importance-including the role designated for it by the Victorians.
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Cyril Ehrlich is author of The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century: A Social History and Harmonious Alliance: A History of the Performing Right Society
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0198161719
- ISBN 13 9780198161714
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages262
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