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Auteur(s) : Latcham, Michael
Titre(s) : Three essays on keyboard instruments [Texte imprimé] / Michael Latcham
Publication : München ; Salzburg : Katzbichler Musikverlag, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 224 p. : Ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften ; 56
Lien à la collection : Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften (Katzbichler)
Note(s) : This volume contains three essays. Each of them presents a critical study of historical
source material. That material variously includes musical instruments, manuscript
writings and inventories, published writings, engravings, paintings and photographs.
0The first essay assesses how many instruments are known to have been made by Bartolomeo
Cristofori and Giovanni Ferrini. Not only the exis-ting instruments by or attributed
to the two makers are examined but also the historical sources that mention their
instruments. The sources include the Me-dician inventories, letters and wills of the
time. Three documents, for instance, may refer to the same piano and also to one surviving
instrument. On the minimum list these all count as one. On the maximum list they count
as four. Speculation is thus left aside: the evidence is examined impartially, allowing
qualified and reliable conclusions to be drawn. 0The second essay examines the work
of Johann Andreas Stein as an organ builder, in particular his building of an organ
completed in 1757 for the Barfüßerkirche in Augsburg. Today, the representation of
the organ in engra-vings, especially in the one made in 1768, might be taken to show
the organ as it was when finished. It turns out that the engraving is not to be read
as a mo-dern photo, that is, as a representation of the organ as made, but as a re-presentation
of Stein?s dream of how the organ could one day become. The details from the contract,
from Stein?s own notebook and from pre-war pho-tos show that that dream was never
fully realised. 0The third essay examines the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot & d?Alembert
and the various encyclopaedias that derived from their Encyclopédie by following the
entries for stringed keyboard instruments through the numerous editions
Sujet(s) : Cristofori, Bartolomeo (1655-1732)
Ferrini, Giovanni (1699?-1758)
Stein, Johann Andreas (1728-1792)
Instruments à clavier -- 18e siècle
Instruments à clavier -- Facture (instruments de musique) -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783873972957. - ISBN 3873972956
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46701241w
Notice n° :
FRBNF46701241
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