Early Keyboard BibliographyCopyright © 1998–2023 CBH † denotes highly recommended titles |
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AUTHOR | TITLE | PUBLICATION DETAILS | ISBN |
- | »Durch den bloßen Druck der Finger …« — 300 Jahre Hammerklavier | Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg 2000 DEUTSCH |
3 926982 64 0 |
Ahrens, Christian | Hammerklaviere mit Wiener Mechanik | Verlag Erwin Bochinsky 1999 DEUTSCH |
3 923 639 34 1 |
Barigazzi, Giuseppe; van der Meer, John Henry; Di Castro, Daniela; & Latham, Michael | Walter e Stein gli strumenti di Mozart • Mozart’s piano makers Walter and Stein | Villa Medici Giulini 2006 ITALIANO & ENGLISH |
- |
Beghin, Tom | Beethoven’s French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration | University of Chicago Press 2022 | 978 0 226 818355 1 |
Beurmann, Andreas | Das Buch vom Klavier | Georg Olms Verlag 2007 DEUTSCH |
978 3 487 08472 5 |
Blom, Eric | The Romance of the Piano | Foulis London 1928 | - |
Breitman, David | Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments | Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2021 | 978 1 64825 010 1 |
Brinsmead, Edgar | History of the Pianoforte | Novello, Ewer & Co 1879 | - |
Burnett, Richard | Company of Pianos | Finchcocks Press 2004 | 1 903942 35 7 |
Clark, Julian H | Some things you always wanted to know about the Fortepiano but never had time to ask | Clark 1994 | - |
Clinkscale, Martha Novak | Makers of the Piano 1700–1820 | Oxford University Press 1995 | 0 19 81632 1 |
Clinkscale, Martha Novak | Makers of the Piano Volume 2 1820–1860 | Oxford University Press 1999 | 0 19 8166257 |
Closson, Ernest | History of the Piano | Paul Elek 1976 | 0 236 17685 4 |
Cobbe, Alec | Chopin’s Swansong — the Paris and London pianos of his last performances now in the Cobbe Collection | The Chopin Society and The Cobbe Collection Trust 2010 | 978 0 9538203 3 7 |
Cogan, Ritchie [prod] | Early Keyboard Instruments at the Victoria & Albert Museum | HSMO 1980 | 0 11 290333 9 |
Cole, Michael | Broadwood Square Pianos | Tatchley Books 2005 | 0 9551777 0 7 |
Cole, Michael | The Pianoforte in the Classical Era | Clarendon Press Oxford 2003 | 0 19 816634 6 |
Colt, C F with Miall, Antony |
The Early Piano | Stainer & Bell | 0 85249 572 2 |
Crombie, David | Piano — Evolution, Design and Performance | Barnes & Noble 2000 | 0 7607 2026 6 |
Dahlström, Fabian | Finländsk Klavertillverkning före år 1900 samt beskrivning av Sibeliusmuseets inhemska klaversamlung | Hangö Tryckeri Ab Hangö 1978 SVENSKA |
951 648 359 3 |
Dolge, Arthur | Pianos and their Makers — A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano | Dover 1972 | 0 486 22856 8 |
Dufetel, Nicolas et al | Liszt e il suono de Érard — Arte e musica nell Romanticismo parigino • Liszt and the Érard Sound — Art and Music in Parisian Romanticism • Liszt et le son Érard — Art et musique dans le Romantisme parisien | Villa Medici Giulini 2011 ITALIANO, ENGLISH & FRANÇAIS |
978 88 95325 07 1 |
Gadd, G S | The British Art Piano and Piano Design — Volume 1 The handiness of an African elephant | The Very Yellow Press 2006 | 978 0 9553264 0 0 |
Gétreau, Florence et al | Chopin e il suono de Pleyel — Arte e musica nella Parigi romantica • Chopin and the Pleyel Sound — Art and Music in Romantic Paris • Chopin et le son Pleyel — Art et musique dans le Paris romantique | Villa Medici Giulini 2010 ITALIANO, ENGLISH & FRANÇAIS |
978 88 95325 05 7 |
Gill, Dominic [ed] | The Book of the Piano | Phaidon 1981 | 0 7148 2036 9 |
Gleich, Clemens von | Pianofortes uit de Lage Landen • Pianofortes from the Low Countries | Frits Knuf 1980 NEDERLANDS & ENGLISH |
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Good, Edwin M | Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos — A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand | Stanford University Press 1982 | 0 8047 1120 8 |
Goold, Madeline | Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano — The Story of the First Pianos and How They Caused a Cultural Revolution | BlueBridge 2009 | 978 1 933346 21 2 |
Hannon, Michael | Mrs Findlay's Broadwood Square Piano | Ranmoor Publications 2015 | 978 0 9931814 1 2 |
Harding, Rosamond E M | The Piano-Forte — Its History traced to the Great Exhibition of 1851 | Cambridge 1933 | - |
Hester, Richard | Introduction to the Fortepiano in 20 Questions more or less | Hester 1987 | - |
Hipkins, A J | A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments | Novello, Ewer & Co 1896 | - |
Hirt, Franz Josef | Meisterwerke des Klavierbaus — Stringed Keyboard Instruments | Urs Graf Verlag 1981 DEUTSCH & ENGLISH |
3 85951 135 1 |
Hollis, Helen Rice | The Musical Instruments of Joseph Haydn — An Introduction | Smithsonian Institution Press 1977 | - |
Hollis, Helen Rice | The Piano — A Pictorial Account of Its Ancestry and Development | Hippocrene Books 1975 | 0 88254 324 5 |
Hollis, Helen Rice | Pianos in the Smithsonian Institution | Smithsonian Institution Press 1973 | - |
Hood, Margaret | Fortepiano Maintenance Manual | Margaret Hood Fortepianos 1998 | - |
James, Philip | Early Keyboard Instruments from their beginnings to the year 1820 | Frederick A Stokes NY 1930 | - |
Johnson Poletti, Janine | Viennese Fortepiano Maintenance and Repair Guide | Johnson Poletti 1988 | - |
Juramie, Ghislaine | Histoire du Piano | Collection Orion FRANÇAIS |
- |
Kildea, Paul | Chopin’s Piano — A Journey Through Romanticism | Penguin Books 2019 | 978 014 198056 0 |
Kjeldsberg, Peter Andreas | Piano i Norge | C Huitfeldt Forlag 1985 NORSK |
82 7003 060 0 |
Komlós, Katalin | Fortepianos and their Music | Clarendon Press Oxford 1995 | 0 19 816426 2 |
Koster, John | Keyboard Musical Instruments in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts | MFA 1994 | 0 87846 401 8 |
Lancaster, Geoffrey Richard | The First Fleet Piano—A Musician’s View Volume One | ANU Press 2015 | 978 1922 144 645 |
Lancaster, Geoffrey Richard | The First Fleet Piano—A Musician’s View Volume Two Appendices | ANU Press 2015 | 978 1925 022 483 |
Lancaster, Geoffrey | Culliford, Rolfe and Barrow: A Tale of Ten Pianos | UWA Publishing 2017 | 978 1 74258 937 4 |
Larson, Paul & Traupman-Carr, Carol [eds] | The Square Piano in Rural Pennsylvania 1760–1830 | Payne Gallery of Moravian College 2001 | 0 9621345 3 8 |
Leschiutta, Sigfrido | Appunti per Una Bibliografia sul Clavicembale Clavicordo e Fortepiano | G Zanibon Padova 1983 ITALIANO |
- |
Lustig, Monika [ed] | Zur Geschichte des Hammerklaviers [14.Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein] | Michaelstein 1996 DEUTSCH & ENGLISH |
3 89512 098 7 |
Mazzocca, Fernando; O’Brien, Grant; Di Stefano, Giovanni Paolo; Galli, Lavinia & Bazzi, Andreina | Schanz lo strumento dei Principi — Arte e musica nella Milano dell’Ottocento al tempo di Cristina Archinto Trivulzio • Schanz the instrument of Princes — Art and music in the [sic] nineteenth century Milan at the time of Cristina Archinto Trivulzio | Villa Medici Giulini 2008 ITALIANO & ENGLISH |
978 88 95325 02 6 |
McCombie, Ian | The Piano Handbook | Reed 1980 | 0 589 50237 9 |
Michel, N E | Historical Pianos — Harpsichords & Clavichords | N E Michel 1970 | - |
Montal, Claude; Sturm, Fred [tr] | The Art of Tuning — A Self-Guided Manual for Piano Tuning, Design, Action Regulation, and Repair from mid–19th-Century France | Piano Technicians Guild Foundation 2015 | 978 0 9861851 0 6 |
Pierce, W Robert | Pierce Piano Atlas | Bob Pierce 1982 | 0 911138 02 1 |
Pollens, Stewart | The Bonafinis Spinet: an early harpsichord converted into a Tangent Piano | JAMIS 1987 | - |
Pollens, Stewart | The Early Pianoforte | Cambridge 1995 | 0 521 41729 5 |
Pollens, Stewart | The Pianos of Bartolomeo Cristofori | JAMIS 1984 | - |
Pollens, Stewart | Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano | Cambridge University Press 2017 | 978 1 107 09657 8 |
Reblitz, Arthur A | Piano Servicing Tuning & Rebuilding | Vestal Press 1984 | 0 911572 12 0 |
Renouf, Nicholas | Musical Instruments in the Viennese Tradition: 1750–1850 | Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments 1981 | - |
Rimbault, E F | The Pianoforte — Its origin, progress, and construction | Robert Cocks and Co 1860 | - |
Roell, Craig H | The Piano in America | University of North Carolina Press 1993 | 0 8078 1802 X |
Rose, Malcolm & Law, David |
A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments | Rose & Law 1991 | 0 9518590 0 5 |
Rosenblum, Sandra P | Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music | Indiana University Press 1988 | 0 253 20680 4 |
Russell, Raymond | Victoria & Albert Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments — Vol 1 Keyboard Instruments | Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 1968 | - |
Sadie, Stanley [ed] | The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (3 vols) | Macmillan Press Limited 1984 | 0 333 37878 4 |
de Silva, Preethi | The Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonné, and the Schiedmayers: Two Manuals and a Notebook, Translated from the Original German, with Commentary | Mellon Press 2009 | 978 0 7734 4874 2 |
Smith, Eric | Pianos — care and restoration | Lutterworth Press 1980 | 0 7188 2463 6 |
Steinway, Henry Z [forward]; Libin, Laurence [introduction] |
The New-York Book of Prices for Manufacturing Piano-fortes by the Society of Journeymen Piano-forte Makers New York 1835 | American Musical Instrument Society, Inc 2009 | 0 913499 31 5 |
Steinway, Theordore E | People and Pianos — A century of service to music | Steinway & Sons New York 1953 | - |
Strange, Thomas; Hawkins, Patrick; & Hara, Kunio | Facing South: Keyboard Instruments in the Early Carolinas | Clemson University Press 2018 | 978 1 9429 5470 5 |
Andreas Streicher; da Silva, Preethi [trans] |
Brief Remarks on the Playing, Tuning, and Care of Fortepianos Made in Vienna by Nanette Streicher née Stein | Early Music Facsimiles 1983 | - |
Sumner, William Leslie | The Pianoforte | St Martin’s Press New York 1971 | - |
Unger-Hamilton, Clive | Keyboard Instruments | Phaidon 1981 | 0 7148 2177 2 |
Wainwright, David | Broadwood by Appointment | Quiller Press London 1982 | 0 907621 10 4 |
Winternitz, Emanuel | Keyboard Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art 1961 | - |
Vandervellen, Pascale | Pianos • Piano’s • Pianos | Mardaga 2000 FRANÇAIS, NEDERLANDS & ENGLISH |
2 87009 734 4 |
Zilberquit, Dr Mark; Shirokov, Yuri S [trans] | The Book of the Piano — An Illustrated History | Paganiniana 1987 | - |
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