THE GENEALOGY OF THE PIANO

THE INVENTION OF THE PIANO

I  - THE BEGINNING
The precursors
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Muzio Clementi

II  - THE PATH
The Beethoven-Clementi-Czerny school of piano playing
From Mozart to Chopin

III – EARLY BRANCHES ON THE PIANO PLAYING TREE

THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL: LISZT, THALBERG, LESCHETIZKY
The Liszt school
The Thalberg school
The Leschetizky school

IV  - UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS
Clementi and John Field: Russian piano playing schools

V  - EUROPEAN SCHOOLS OF PIANO PLAYING
German piano playing schools:
The Berlin school: Kullak
The Leipzig school: Mendelssohn-Moscheles-Clara Schumann
French piano playing schools
Hungarian piano playing schools
Polish piano playing schools
Spanish piano playing schools: The Granados-Marshall school
Portuguese piano playing schools
English piano playing schools

VI  - THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (19th to 20th): THE MODERN SCHOOL
The “Modern” school: Busoni, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff
The “Modern” school Leimer-Gieseking
The “Romantic” school in the “Modern” era: Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz

VII  - NEUHAUS AND RUSSIAN PIANO PLAYING SCHOOLS

VIII  - THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Italian piano playing schools
The School of Vincenzo Vitale



IX  - SURPRISING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AMERICAS
Piano playing schools in the United States
The Russian-American piano playing school
The Canadian piano playing schools

X  - ORIENTAL PIANO PLAYING SCHOOLS

XI  - LATIN-AMERICAN PIANO PLAYING SCHOOLS
Piano playing schools of Latin America
Argentine piano playing schools
Brazilian piano playing schools

XII  - NEW CHALLENGES FOR THE ART OF THE PIANO AND TEACHING

POSTLUDE

CONCLUSION

GENEALOGICAL TREES
Tree I
Tree II
Tree III
Tree IV
Tree V
Tree V-b
Tree VI
Tree VI-b
Tree VII
Tree VIII
Tree IX
Tree X
Tree XI
Tree XII
Tree XIII
Global Genealogical tree (inside dust-jacket)

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: The development of the piano
Appendix 2:  A chronological history of the piano
Appendix 3:  A chronological list of pianists, teachers, and composers
Appendix 4:  A chronological list of conservatories and music schools
Appendix 5:  CD – “The genealogy of the piano”

Notes
Bibliography
Articles

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