Women and the piano : a history in 50 lives / Susan Tomes.
- 作者： Tomes, Susan.
- 出版： New Haven : Yale University Press c2024.
- 主題： Women pianists--Biography.
- ISBN： 9780300266573 (hbk.) 、 030026657X (hbk.)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005153851 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the modern piano's keys were designed without consideration of women's typically smaller hands. Yet despite their music being largely confined to the domestic sphere, women continued to play, perform, and compose on their own terms. Celebrated pianist and author Susan Tomes traces fifty such women across the piano's history. Including now-famous names such as Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, Tomes also highlights overlooked women: from Hélène de Montgeroult, whose playing saved her life during the French Revolution, to Leopoldine Wittgenstein, influential Viennese salonnière, and Hazel Scott, the first Black performer in the United States to have a nationally syndicated TV show. From Maria Szymanowska to Nina Simone, and including interviews with women performing today, this is a much-needed corrective to our understanding of the piano--and a timely testament to women's musical lives.
摘要註
"Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the modern piano's keys were designed without consideration of women's typically smaller hands. Yet despite their music being largely confined to the domestic sphere, women continued to play, perform, and compose on their own terms. Celebrated pianist and author Susan Tomes traces fifty such women across the piano's history. Including now-famous names such as Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, Tomes also highlights overlooked women: from Hélène de Montgeroult, whose playing saved her life during the French Revolution, to Leopoldine Wittgenstein, influential Viennese salonnière, and Hazel Scott, the first Black performer in the United States to have a nationally syndicated TV show. From Maria Szymanowska to Nina Simone, and including interviews with women performing today, this is a much-needed corrective to our understanding of the piano--and a timely testament to women's musical lives"--
內容註
Anne-Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy --. Maria Theresia von Paradis --. Jsepha von Auernhammer --. Marianna Martines --. Therese Jansen Bartolozzi --. Sara Levy --. Helene de Montgeroult --. Maria Szymanowska --. Lucy Anderson --. Louise Farrenc --. Fanny Mendelssohn --. Louise Dulcken --. Marie Pleyel --. Clara Schumann --. Wilhelmine Cluss-Szarvady --. Arabela Goddard --. Amy Fay --. Sophie Menter --. Marie Jaëll --. Leopodine Wittgenstein --. Teresa Carreño --. Cécile Chaminade --. Adele aus der Ohe --. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler --. Winnaretta Singer --. Amy Beach --. Marguerite Long --. Wanda Landowska --. Olga Samaroff --. Nadia Boulanger --Myra Hess --. Guiomar Novaes --. Clara Haskil --. Maria Yudina --. Lili Kraus --. Eileen Joyce --. Margaret Bonds --. Annie Fischer --. Nancy Weir --. Alicia de Larrocha --. Tatiana Nikolayeva --. Yvonne Loriod --. Philippa Schuyler --. Zhu Xiao-Mei --. Lovie Austin --. Raie da Costa --. Mary Lou Williams --. Winifred Atwell --. Hazel Scott --. Nina Simone --. Further perspectives --. Where are we now? --. Coda.