How Did They Play? How Did They Teach? - 2nd Edition Book/Online Audio - Paperback

by Sandra Soderlund (Author)

(Hinshaw Music). This book traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century. It discusses all the instruments organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and piano, including quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books. There are chapters dedicated to Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, and major sections on such great performers and composers as Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff. This book belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher.