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Beethoven's French Piano

A Tale of Ambition and Frustration
BuchGebunden
384 Seiten
Englisch
The University of Chicago Presserschienen am21.07.2022
Using a replica of Beethoven´s Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven´s work. In 1803 Beethoven acquired a French piano from the Erard Frères workshop in Paris. The composer was so enchanted with it, one visitor reported, that he regards all the pianos made here as rubbish by comparison.  While Beethoven loved its sound, the touch of the French keyboard was much heavier than that of the Viennese pianos he had been used to. Hoping to overcome this drawback, he commissioned a local technician to undertake a series of revisions, with ultimately disappointing results. Beethoven set aside the Erard piano for good in 1810.  Beethoven´s French Piano returns the reader to this period of Beethoven´s enthusiasm for all things French. What traces of the Erard´s presence can be found in piano sonatas like his Waldstein and Appassionata ? To answer this question, Tom Beghin worked with a team of historians and musicians to commission the making of an accurate replica of the Erard piano. As both a scholar and a recording artist, Beghin is uniquely positioned to guide us through this key period of Beethoven´s work. Whether buried in archives, investigating the output of the French pianists who so fascinated Beethoven, or seated at the keyboard of his Erard, Beghin thinks and feels his way into the mind of the composer, bringing startling new insights into some of the best-known piano compositions of all time.mehr
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KlappentextUsing a replica of Beethoven´s Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven´s work. In 1803 Beethoven acquired a French piano from the Erard Frères workshop in Paris. The composer was so enchanted with it, one visitor reported, that he regards all the pianos made here as rubbish by comparison.  While Beethoven loved its sound, the touch of the French keyboard was much heavier than that of the Viennese pianos he had been used to. Hoping to overcome this drawback, he commissioned a local technician to undertake a series of revisions, with ultimately disappointing results. Beethoven set aside the Erard piano for good in 1810.  Beethoven´s French Piano returns the reader to this period of Beethoven´s enthusiasm for all things French. What traces of the Erard´s presence can be found in piano sonatas like his Waldstein and Appassionata ? To answer this question, Tom Beghin worked with a team of historians and musicians to commission the making of an accurate replica of the Erard piano. As both a scholar and a recording artist, Beghin is uniquely positioned to guide us through this key period of Beethoven´s work. Whether buried in archives, investigating the output of the French pianists who so fascinated Beethoven, or seated at the keyboard of his Erard, Beghin thinks and feels his way into the mind of the composer, bringing startling new insights into some of the best-known piano compositions of all time.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-226-81835-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum21.07.2022
Seiten384 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 153 mm, Höhe 233 mm, Dicke 32 mm
Gewicht722 g
Artikel-Nr.58497238

Autor

Tom Beghin is a senior researcher at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. He is the author of The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist and coeditor, with Sander Goldberg, of Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. His discography includes the complete keyboard works of Haydn and many piano works by Beethoven.