Book // Beethoven's French Piano
A Tale of Ambition and Frustration
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Parallel Tales
- Chapter One - Aspirations and Entanglements (→)
- Vignette 1 - The Letter (by Tilman Skowroneck)
- Chapter Two - The Psychology of Waiting (→)
- Chapter Three - Malleability of Tone (→)
- Chapter Four - The Lure of una corda (→)
- Vignette 2 - Two Visitors in Paris (with Robin Blanton, Michael Pecak, and Tilman Skowroneck)
- Chapter Five - The Perfect Instrument
- Chapter Six - An Unlikely Competitor (→)
- Chapter Seven - Continuous Sound (→)
- Vignette 3 - A Gift Not a Given (with Robin Blanton)
- Chapter Eight - The Vertical/Horizontal Paradox (→)
- Chapter Nine - A Grand Sonata (→)
- Chapter Ten - A Prize-winning Teacher (→)
- Vignette 4 - Building a Replica (Chris Maene in conversation with Robin Blanton) (→)
- Chapter Eleven - Revisiting the Revisions (→)
- Chapter Twelve - Mixing Sound (→)
- Epilogue - Time and Resonance (→)
Bonus Material
- Vignette 5: Faster and Faster (by Charles Shrader) (→)
- Louis Adam, Piano Method of the Conservatoire (Paris: Naderman, 1804–05), translated by Tom Beghin, with Mikayla Jensen-Large (2021) (→)
- Original Quotations (→)
Lecture-documentary
Featuring Tom Beghin, Robert Adelson, Chris Maene, Jeanne Roudet, Jacques-Oliver Boudon, and Stephan Gschwendtner.
Spoken in English, Dutch, French, and German, with English subtitles.