Piano-Playing Revisited - What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments

This book provides a guide to how historical instruments influenced the composers of keyboard music and offers a way to look at their scores with fresh eyes and ears. It focuses on the music of Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin, as well as the clavichord in eighteenth-century keyboard culture. It includes a suite of videos that demonstrate how composers were influenced by the instruments they knew and how that understanding can help today's performers.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 228 pages
\n Publication date: 19 January 2021
\n Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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A comprehensive guide, accompanied by an online suite of video examples, delves into the profound influence of historical instruments on the composers of keyboard music. It offers a fresh perspective on examining their scores, enabling pianists to engage with the music of three centuries on a single instrument: Steinway's design from the late 1800s. While other types of pianos, such as Mozart's Walter or Chopin's Pleyel, are increasingly being copied or restored, their performance is primarily limited to specialists in Historical Performance. David Breitman, a renowned instructor at Oberlin Conservatory, has been introducing students to historical keyboards since 1991. In this book, he delves into his personal passion for music and the challenges he encountered. Breitman begins by acknowledging the dilemma of performing historical repertoire with modern instruments. He then demonstrates how insights from period instruments can be applied to practical problems on any piano, including the interplay between melody and accompaniment, as well as the utilization of the pedal.

The central portion of the book explores the pianos and piano music of renowned composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin. A wide range of musical examples showcases how composers were influenced by the instruments they knew, and how this understanding can benefit contemporary performers. The book concludes with a fervent plea for individual creativity and autonomy, urging contemporary musicians to embrace authentic voices that resonate with our own time. Additionally, a suite of videos is available, featuring demonstrations of representative musical examples, as well as the moderator pedal and clavichord action. These videos provide further insights into the influence of historical instruments on keyboard music.

\n Weight: 448g\n
Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781648250101\n \n