Edited volume // Keyboard Perspectives vol. 13
The Lure of Paris, 1795–1810
Table of Contents
Preface by the editor
Tilman Skowroneck – Preparing for Paris: Beethoven and French Musicianship
Erin Helyard – Muzio Clementi: The Father (Also) of French Pianism (→)
Tom Beghin – The Paris Conservatoire: An Institution with Ambition
Michael Pecak – Frédéric Kalkbrenner as an Alumnus of the Paris Conservatoire
Jeanne Roudet – Reconciling Innovative Pedagogy with Musical Heritage: The Méthode de piano du Conservatoire of Louis Adam (→)
Luca Montebugnoli – “On the Art of Accompanying the Score”: Louis Adam’s Instructions for Arranging Orchestral Music on the Piano (→)
Charles Shrader – Daniel Steibelt, Charlatanry, and the Technaesthetics of bon son (→)
Robin Blanton – Perfection’s Purchase: Erard Frères Grand Pianos in Paris Society around 1800
Hester Bell Jordan – Mesdemoiselles Erard: Gender, Music Publishing, and Self-Dedication in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Frédéric de La Grandville – The State of Piano Instruction at the Paris Conservatoire around 1810: An Inspector’s Report (→)
Book review
Eleanor Smith – Invention, Design, Fraternity: Three Books Furthering Knowledge of the French Piano Builder Sébastien Erard
Exhibition review
Camilla Köhnken – “Beethoven. World.Citizen.Music” (Bundeskunsthalle Bonn) and “Hotel Beethoven“ (Bozar Brussels): Two Anniversary Exhibitions Braving the Corona Year of 2020 and Other Calamities (→)
Bonus material
- CONCOURS Orpheus 2018 (→)
- Louis Adam, Piano Method of the Conservatoire (Paris: Naderman, 1804–05), translated by Tom Beghin, with Mikayla Jensen-Large (2021)