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A natural history of the piano from Mozart to modern jazz, and everything in between

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Main Author: Isacoff, Stuart
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Subjects:
Piano > History.
Piano music > History and criticism.
Pianists.
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Physical Description:416 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0307266370 : HRD
9780307266378 : HRD
Author Notes:Stuart Isacoff , a pianist and writer, was the founder of Piano Today magazine, which he edited for nearly three decades. A winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, he is a regular contributor on the arts to The Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times, Chamber Music, Symphony, Musical America, Stagebill , and The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Mr. Isacoff is also the author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization . He is on the faculty of the SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music. He lives in Closter, New Jersey.

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