"This volume comprises a selection of contributions presented at the international conference Central European musician and the birth of french piano virtuosity, held in Rome, Istituto Storico Austiaco and Villa Medici, from 11 to 13 October 2012"

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Paris after Napoleon: hub for Europe's pianists / Leon Plantinga -- Pianists and the European music trade c.1790-1820 / David Rowland -- Le concerto pour piano dans les catalogues des éditeurs parisiens et lyonnais jusqu'aux environs de 1820 / Henri Vanhulst -- Les éditeurs français de Carl Czerny. Essai de chronologie des éditions de oeuvres de Czerny en France (1825-1830) / Cécile Reynaud -- Musical and biographical information in some letters from and to the composer and publisher Ignaz Pleyel / Herbert Seifert -- Le développement du jeu "moderne" du piano entre 1820 et 1830: les changements dans la facture instrumentale et le développement de nouveaux moyens pianistique / Pierre Goy -- Antoine Reicha et le concept de virtuosité: approche étymologique d'un mot a la frontierè de deux siecles / Alban Ramaut -- "A musician of the first order": Frédéric Kalkbrenner's virtuoso strategies for Paris / Alicia C. Levin -- The second solo in the opening movements of early-Romantic Parisian piano concertos: Frédéric Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) and his contemporaries / Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald -- A real symphonie concertante in Pleyel's manner: Johann Nepomuk Hummel's (Double) Concerto for Piano and Violin, op. 17 / Christian Ahrens -- Jan Ladislav Dussek and his first biographers / Michaela Freemanová -- Dussek's reception as a musician at the Paris Music Conservatoire, 1807-1812 / Frédéric de la Grandville -- A musical wertheriade the particular and unique character of Dussek's Piano concerto in G minor, Op. 49/50 / Richard Fuller -- Cantabile in French methods for piano 1797-1840 / Stephanie Frakes -- Ersatz improvisation: Chopin's Op. 28 and the published prelude collection / J. Mackenzie Pierce -- Scelte musicali e repertori degli allievi pianisti del Conservatoire di parighi: gli Excercices des élèves (1800-1824) e il Morceau de lecture à vue del 1829 / Fiorella Sassanelli -- Le pianiste and its history of pianism in Paris: "The Corneilles and Racines of piano are not perruques!" / Shaena B. Weitz -- Contrasts in John Field reception: the Parisian 'images' / Majella Boland -- Henri Herz and his Mexican biography: a response from a virtuoso / Yael Bitrán

The volume aims to investigate the world of the piano in France, and the evolution of the instrument between the ancien régime and the Restoration. Particular attention will be devoted to the circulation of central European pianists at the turn of the nineteenth century, their influence on the development of piano culture and technique and the impact this had on French musical tastes. Nineteen contributions will explore the piano industry, aspects of performance practice and the bravura tradition, and will investigate certain lines of interaction between publishers, composers, institutions and concert venues between the French Revolution and the first Industrial Revolution. The ultimate aim will be to determine more comprehensively the role of piano culture within nineteenth-century Parisian musical life

14 engelska, 4 franska, 1 italienskt bidrag