Music for Three or More Pianists A Historical Survey and Catalogue

by Maxwell, Grant L.

• ISBN13: 9780810846579
• ISBN10: 0810846578
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Now in paperback! Hugely popular in the 19th century, and starting to regain popularity now, the literature for multiple pianos is relatively unknown. J.S. Bach began the history of keyboard music for three or more players around 1730; Mozart contributed to the literature. Other important composers_Czerny, Moscheles, Smetana, Glazunov, Rachmaninoff_continued the tradition for particular pianists and occasions. Louis Moreau Gottschalk used a large number of pianos and pianists for his popularly acclaimed 'monster concerts' in the Americas. By the early 20th century, a mass of transcriptions and arrangements had accumulated. Later in the century, such important 20th-century composers as Ives, Stravinsky, Antheil, Orff, Dallapiccola, Milhaud, and others composed original works for the medium. Includes a comprehensive bibliography with an illustrative, detailed guide to the catalogue. Cloth edition originally published in 1993.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Historical Survey
Introduction	p. 3
The Multiple Keyboard Concertos	p. 9
Pioneering Pieces	p. 23
The Monster Concert	p. 39
Novel Horizons	p. 49
Recent Eclecticism	p. 73
Conclusions	p. 109
Catalogue
Guide to the Catalogue	p. 115
Abbreviations	p. 121
Nineteenth-Century Works	p. 131
Twentieth-Century Works	p. 139
Works with Orchestra/Orchestral Reductions	p. 159
Works with other Instrumentalists/Singers	p. 171
Works with Variable Instrumentation	p. 179
Works with other Acoustic and Electronic Instruments/Tape--Miscellanea	p. 187
Salon Works	p. 191
Transcriptions/Arrangements	p. 227
Pedagogical/Graded Pieces for Class Piano	p. 353
Some Anthologies and Collections	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 413
Index to the Catalogue	p. 443
About the Author	p. 469
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