Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums
"Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums" is a spectacular book written by Edward L. Kottick and George Lucktenberg. Kottick is Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, author of The Harpsichord Owner's Guide, and a longtime agent for ZHI. A builder himself, he writes a regular column in Continuo magazine for owners and builders. Lucktenberg is Adjunct Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence at Reinhardt College, and has been director of the Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Awards since 1980.
Readers are invited on a guided tour of the more important and unusual holdings in 47 museums in 16 European countries, such as the Cristofori pianos in Rome and Leipzig, The Hague's 1769 clavicytherium, and the most copied harpsichord in the world, a 1769 instrument by Taskin in Edinburgh.
Here you can learn about the important contributions of such builders as Broadwood, Dulcken, Graf, Hass, Kirkman, Mietke, the Ruckers family, Shudi, the Silbermanns, Stein, Streicher (the first female piano builder), Walter and Zenti. Elements of appearance, sound and playing mechanism of individual harpsichords, clavichords and early pianos are explored, as well as their historical significance, relationship to other instruments and the changes (good and bad) wrought by restorations.
The authors provide travelers with essential information on each museum and a short description of the city in which it is located (information based on their own experience conducting tours to many of these collections). This generously illustrated book concludes with a glossary of technical terms and an index of makers. Cloth, 304 pp., 119 b&w photos. Indiana University Press 0-253-33239-7.
Contents |
Preface by George Lucktenberg
Acknowledgments
Introduction |
I. Austria |
Eisenstadt |
Burgenländische Landesmuseen |
Joseph Haydn Museum |
Franz List Museum |
Salzburg |
Mozart's Birthplace |
Museum Carolino Augusteum |
Vienna |
Kunsthistorisches Museum |
Technisches Museum für Industrie und Gewerbe |
II. Belgium |
Antwerp: |
Vleeshuis Museum |
Plantin-Moretus Museum |
Bruges |
Gruuthuse Museum |
Brussels |
Musée Instrumental de Bruxelles |
III. Czech Republic | Prague | National Museum |
IV. Denmark | Copenhagen | Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudis' Samling |
V.France | Paris | Musée de la Musique; Musée des Arts et Métiers |
VI. Germany |
Bad Krozingen | Neumeyer-Junghanns-Tracey Collection |
Berlin |
Schloss Charlottenburg |
Stattlisches Institute for Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz |
Eisenach | Bach-Haus |
Halle | Händel-Haus |
Hamburg |
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe |
Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte |
Leipzig | Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig |
Munich |
Deutsches Museum |
Städtische Instrumentensaamlung der Stadt München |
Nuremberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum |
Stuttgart | Württembergisches Landesmuseum |
VII. Hungary | Budapest | Hungarian National Museum |
VIII. Ireland | Dublin | National Museum of Ireland |
IX. Italy |
Florence | Museo degli Strumenti Musicali del Conservatorio de Musica Luigi Cherubini |
Milan | Museo degli Strumenti Musicali, Castello Sforzesco |
Rome | Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali |
X. The Netherlands | The Hague | Gemeentemuseum |
XI. Norway |
Oslo | Norsk Folk Museum |
Trondheim | Ringve Museum |
XII. Portugal | Lisbon | Museu da Música |
XIII. Spain | Barcelona | Museu de la Música |
XIV. Sweden |
Stockholm |
Stiftensen Musikkulturens främjande |
Musikmuseet |
XV. Switzerland | Basel | Historisches Museum |
XVI. United Kingdom |
Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh Collection |
Goudhurst | Finchcocks Collection |
Liverpool | Liverpool Museum |
London |
Fenton House |
Royal College of Music Collection |
Victoria and Albert Museum |
Oxford | Bate Collection of Musical Instruments |
Glossary |
Index of Makers |
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