From the late C18th to the present, by a concert pianist of renown. Lucid and fascinating. From Yale.
The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces
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Edition:Hardback978030025392402/07/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Bowie's biographer charts the movement through 100+ interviews with those who lived it and wore the flounces.
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In this magnificently madcap adventure, SR pursues rumours of old pianos into all corners of Siberia: Arctic, Altai, Kamchatka, Princess Volkonsky in Irkutsk... She writes well, has a lovely... read more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
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The stupendous and vaulting 'Symphony of a Thousand', first performed in Munich in 1910 to huge acclaim, and its effect on those around the composer: Berg and Schoenberg, Korngold, Bruno Wal... read more
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
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The Nightingale: Notes on a songbird
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