Harpsichord in America : A Twentieth-Century Revival / / Larry Palmer.
After its eclipse by the piano, the harpsichord survived primarily as a museum curiosity until the end of the nineteenth century. But early in the new century the player and builder Arnold Dolmetsch found a ready market for his harpsichords, clavichords, and virginals and an eager audience for his c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1989. ©1989. |
| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 202 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- A passion for collecting
- An explorer arrives: Arnold Dolmetsch
- Dolmetsch's American legacy
- The incomparable Wanda Landowska
- Lewis Richards, American harpsichordist
- Landowska's American circle
- Made in America: harpsichords?
- New generation, new aesthetic: Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Two "first ladies of the harpsichord"
- A golden age: Landowska returns
- The past is future
- Marathon man: Fernando Valenti
- Kits, records, and all that jazz.