Nineteenth-Century Piano Music Translation And Book Review

Nineteenth-Century Piano Music, edited by Larry Todd, is a collection of articles on nineteenth-century piano music, and the ten contributors (the second edition has eleven) are all famous musicologists from American universities. This book is devoted to a selection of the piano music culture, the performance practices of piano music, and the most significant nineteenth-century composers for the instrument. In this volume, the scholars take full advantage of a variety of critical approaches of analysis, social-cultural observation, and historical narrative, presenting an overall and comprehensively academic trend. The readers of this book will see how the western musicologists reinterpret artistic meaning of the masterpieces, and explore the cultural value of them.The first edition of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music that is published by Schirmer Books in1990has become an authoritative study on the19th-century piano music. After14years, a British publishing house, Routledge, republished it in2004(revising on the base of the first edition and adding a new chapter of women composer-pianists such as Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel), that serves to show that the academic value of this volume has withstood the test of time, and presents a kind of "classical" meaning in this area.