Adelson, Robert - Erard

Erard: A Passion for the Piano shows how the Erard piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late eighteenth century and continuing into the final decades of the nineteenth.

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CONTENTS

Figures
Abbreviations
Editorial note
Erard family tree
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. Making a harpsichord sound like a piano
2. Founding a workshop
3. Square pianos and piano-organs
4. A modern business
5. Harps, the Revolution and London
6. The French grand piano
7. Gifts for Haydn, Beethoven and many others
8. Financial struggles
9. Faster and louder: the double-escapement action
10. Liszt and the introduction of the new piano
11. Piano wars
12. Family strains and secrets
13. Mendelssohn and the Erards
14. Passing the flame
15. Camille Erard and the end of the Erard Empire
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography