Virtuosity and Innovation Studies on Piano Music of the Brilliant Style (ca. 1790‒1840)
Stephan Lewandowski (Hrsg.)
This volume deals with a generation of composers that has often been overshadowed by previous music historiography: the generation between the Viennese classics and the Romantics born around 1810. To this day, piano music of the ‘stile brillante’ is sometimes regarded as superficially displaying virtuosity, but musically uninspired. However, the achievements of the ‘pianistes compositeurs’ and ‘compositeurs pianistes’ such as Carl Czerny (1791–1857), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784–1849), and Henri Herz (1803–1888) not only pertained to influencing the next generation, including such famous musicians as Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849) and Franz Liszt (1811–1886), but also they can be measured in their very own musical efforts. On this topic the volume provides an overview of the current state of international research in a multi-layered and wide-ranging manner. Both musicological and music-analytical contributions attempt to give a compositional œuvre, in many cases of very high quality and in some cases only recently rediscovered, a deservedly more central place in the specialist discourse.
Franz Steiner Verlag
The series of publications by the Institute for Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy brings together publications from the fields of musicology, music theory and music education. Proceedings from previous conferences, independent anthologies and monographs, as well as dissertations and postdoctoral theses, all find a forum here.
One focus is on local and institute-specific topics, such as research into the history of Sorbian composition and theory or that of the border region between Germany, Poland and Czechia. Piano music of the 18th and 19th centuries and interdisciplinary pedagogical questions concerning the teaching of music are also in focus.