Playing the piano may be hazardous to your health?
Posted in Research, Women and pianos, tagged 19th century, Czerny, fortepiano, gender, health, Hummel on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Someday I’d like to do a project on women and piano-playing around the turn of the 19th century. Women were perhaps the primary consumers of pianos for the home in this period, especially as the 19th century progressed. And I’ve noticed in my reading of late 18th-century musical journals that it was not at all [...]
