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The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.
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Guides the reader through the unusual and fascinating keyboard holdings of sixteen nations, thirty-five cities, and forty-seven museums.
A select bibliography and extensive endnotes enable the reader to take all of the issues further."--Jacket.
This volume illustrates and describes highlights from the collection of keyboard instruments in the V&A Museum. It features such masterpieces as the Taskin miniature harpsichord, Queen Elizabeth's Virginals and the earliest dated harpsichord by Jerome of Bologna, made in 1521.
Although eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard music, especially by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, is among the most popular ever written, there has been surprisingly little serious research into the instruments for which it was composed. This book fills that gap. Based on evidence from primary source material, much of it previously undiscovered or neglected, Maunder traces the history and development of the various keyboard instruments available in Vienna throughout the eighteenth century--harpsichords, clavichords, and pianos--and their use by composers and performers.