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 [...]
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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 | 5 Comments »
Schiedmayer fortepiano damage report
Posted in Online resources, Research, tagged fortepiano, letter, manuscript, Schiedmayer on March 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I just discovered the Waller Manuscripts Collection at the University of Uppsala Library. What a knockout! It is a beautifully catalogued digital archive of manuscripts from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, mainly related to the sciences, all donated to the Uppsala Library in 1955 by the famous collector Erik Waller.
You can view high-resolution [...]
