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History of the pianoforte and pianoforte players

Chapter 15: Index of Names and Matters
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A historical survey traces the pianoforte's evolution from early keyboard instruments such as the clavichord, virginal, and harpsichord through technical innovations that enabled dynamic expression and modern technique. It interleaves instrument history, maker developments, and changing social uses — from domestic parlors to concert stages — and examines repertoires and styles across eras, including English virginal music, French dance pieces, Italian sonatas, and German contrapuntal and classical traditions. Chapters profile major composers and performers, discuss performance practice and pedagogy, and consider how constructional and stylistic shifts shaped repertoire and pianistic technique.

Index of Names and Matters

  • Accompagnato—style, 95
  • Adam, L., 160, 186, 192
  • Agricola, M., 43 (see Erratum)
  • Alkan, 317
  • Ansorge, 301
  • Arcadelt, 8 note
  • Aria, 72
  • Arne, T. A., 38
  • Aston, 27
  • Attaignant, 42
  • Baake, 191
  • Bach, Friedemann, 138
  • Bach, John Christian, 94, 148, 159
  • Bach, John Sebastian, 91 ff.
  • Life, 93
  • His contrapuntal method, 94
  • Accompagnato, 95
  • Style of work, 96
  • Construction of his pieces, 96
  • Technique, 116
  • Clavier method, 118
  • Bach and the Hammer-clavier, 122
  • Original editions of, 102
  • Toccatas, 98
  • Symphonies and Inventions, 97
  • Fugues, 100
  • “Art of Fugue,” 103
  • Wohltemperiertes Klavier, 102, 112, 113, 116, 119
  • Chromatic Fantasia, 103
  • Other Fantasias, 109, 110
  • Partitas, 104
  • English Suites, 106
  • Overture in French Style, 120
  • Italian Concerto, 109
  • Preludes, 112
  • Programme-music, 114
  • Goldberg Variations, 117
  • Other mentions, 148, 163, 326
  • Bach, Philip Emanuel, 128 ff.
  • Life, 138
  • The “Versuch,” 139
  • “Manieren,” 140
  • Harmonies, 144
  • Melody, 144
  • Works, 143
  • Amalia-sonatas, 145
  • Barth, 306
  • “Bebung,” 20, 119
  • Bechstein, 310
  • Beethoven, 157 ff.
  • Reformer, 158
  • Tragedy in Music of, 169
  • Concertos, 170
  • Scherzi, 169
  • Forms, 171
  • Style of playing, 183
  • Sonatas in detail, 175 ff.
  • Bembo, Pietro, 77
  • Benedict, 191
  • Bennett, Sterndale, 268
  • Berger, Ludwig, 184, 191, 193
  • Berger, Wilhelm, 323
  • Bertini, 205
  • Besardus, 12
  • Bird, William, 27-31
  • Carman’s Whistle, 31
  • Bischoff, 307, 316
  • Blow, John, 38
  • Blüthner, 310
  • Böhner, 245
  • Bösendorfer, 310
  • Bononcini, 74
  • Borodin, 320
  • Borwick, 300
  • Brahms, 322
  • Brendel, Franz, 322
  • Breslaur, 304
  • Broadwood, 133, 169
  • Bülow, Hans von, 296
  • Bull, John, 32, 34, 36, 71 note
  • King’s Hunt, 35
  • Busoni, 301
  • Buxtehude, 92
  • Caccini, 75
  • Carissimi, 78
  • Carreño, Madame, 303
  • Cavalieri, 77
  • Cavalli, 75
  • Chabrier, 319
  • Chambonnières, 52
  • Chaminade, Cécile, 319
  • Chopin, 256 ff.
  • Etudes, 203, 263
  • Chopin and Hummel, 261
  • Life, 258
  • Works, 262
  • Playing, 257
  • Clavichord, the, 19, 20, 89, 91, 124
  • Clavicymbal, 23, 81
  • Clauss-Savardy, 293
  • Clementi, 190, 208
  • Group of his followers, 191, 193
  • Collard, 193
  • Compass of clavier, etc., 19-22, 24, 211
  • Concertos, 109, 151, 170, 319, etc.
  • Contests, musical, 91, 161, 163
  • Corelli, 78, 82
  • Counterpoint, 9, 79, 84, 85
  • Couperin, François, 53 ff.
  • Content of his pieces, 56
  • Forms, 55
  • L’art de toucher le clavécin, 63, 64
  • Couperin, Louise, 59
  • Couplet in Rondo, 55, 147 note
  • Cramer, 194, 210
  • Cristofori, 121, 122, 133
  • Cui, 320
  • Czerny, 190, 216
  • Da Capo, 84
  • D’Agoult, 276
  • D’Albert, Eugene, 307, 324
  • Dance
  • Old English, 18
  • First instrumental dances, 15, 42
  • French danseuses, 43 ff.
  • Oldest books of dances, 52
  • Old dance forms, 55
  • Allemand, etc.
  • Dandrieu, 49, 65
  • D’Anglebert, 40, 65
  • Dawson, 300
  • Diémer, 302, 309
  • D’Indy, Vincent, 319
  • Diruta, 24, 80
  • Döhler, 291, 293
  • Donizetti, 202
  • Dorn, H., 191
  • Dreyschock, 293
  • Dubois, 319
  • Dumont, 65
  • Dupont, 306
  • Durante, 89
  • Dussek, 159, 163 ff.
  • Duysen, 310
  • Eberl, 183, 190
  • Eckard, Joh., 48
  • Eckard (Paris), 160
  • Elizabeth, Queen, 3, 4
  • Elsner, 265
  • English Music, 6, 14, 16, 27-39, 38 note, 82 note
  • English relations to French music, 15, 41
  • Erard, 133
  • Ertmann, Baroness, 160
  • Essipoff, Madame, 293
  • Étude, 203 ff.
  • Fantasia, Old English, 16, 82 note, 101 note
  • Fantasia, Italian, 80
  • Fantasia, free, 145 F. senza tempo, 143
  • Farnaby, 37
  • Farrenc, 52
  • Fauré, 319
  • Field, 159, 193, 265
  • Fingering, in old times, 26, 81, 116
  • Fischer, 303
  • Fleischer, Oskar, 41
  • Fortbien, 133
  • Franck, C., 319
  • French Characteristic Pieces, 132, 148
  • Frescobaldi, 73, 79, 80, 92
  • Freund, 306
  • Friederici, 133
  • Friedheim, 301
  • Froberger, 92
  • Gabrieli, 15, 26, 79, 92
  • Gabrilowitsch, 301
  • Gade, 321
  • Galilei, Vincenzio, 77
  • Gallot, 51
  • Galuppi, 89
  • Gasparini, 70
  • Gaultier, 41, 50
  • Gelinek, 161, 183
  • General Bass (see Thorough Bass), 284
  • Germer, 307
  • Gibbons, 7, 16, 37
  • Glasounow, 320
  • Gorlier, 15
  • Graf Pianos, 182
  • Gravicymbel, 133
  • Greulich, 191
  • Grieg, 321
  • Guicciardi, Julia, 160
  • Hackebrett (dulcimer), 121
  • Handel, 74, 138
  • Hässler, 159
  • Hammer-klavier, 121, 312
  • Harpsichord, 22, 24, 78 note
  • Hartvigson, 300
  • Hasler, 92
  • Hasse, 14
  • Hausmann, 309
  • Haydn, 149, 159
  • Hebenstreit, 121, 122
  • Heller, Stephen, 318, 319
  • Henselt, 318
  • Herz, 201
  • Heymann, 301
  • Hiller, Ferdinand, 191, 317
  • Hofmann, Jos., 301
  • Hüllmandel, 192
  • Hummel, 190, 193, 211, 212 ff.
  • Hünten, 201
  • Hurdy-gurdy, 21
  • Ibach, 310
  • Improvisation, 161, 162 (Mozart), 198
  • In Bach’s time, 130
  • In 1800, 161, 198, 211
  • Irmler, 310
  • Isaac, 92
  • Italian Forms, 78-80
  • Chamber Music, 78
  • Jadin, 192
  • Jaell, 293
  • Janko, 308
  • Jannequin, 48, 49, 50, 61
  • Jedliczka, 306
  • Jensen, Adolf, 322
  • Joseffy, 306
  • Judenkunig, 11
  • Kalkbrenner, 190, 192, 198, 218
  • Kaps, 310
  • Karr, 201
  • “Kenner und Liebhaber,” 143
  • Keyboard, 24 note
  • Kienzl, 323, 324
  • Kirchner, 318
  • Kirnberger, 131
  • Kittl, 191
  • Kjerulf, 322
  • Klauwell, 304
  • Klavier (see Pianoforte), 18, 21, 23, 121
  • “Klavierlehrer,” paper, 305
  • Kleeberg, 293
  • Klengel, 193
  • Klindworth, 306
  • Knabe, 310
  • Koch, 315
  • Köhler, 189
  • Kontski, 190, 201
  • Kozeluch, 190, 210
  • Krebs, 145
  • Kuhnau, 92
  • “Quacksalver,” 129
  • “Biblical Stories,” 119
  • Kullak, Ad., 306
  • Kullak, Franz, 306
  • Kullak, Th., 191, 304, 306
  • Lacombe, 319
  • Lasso, Orlando, 26, 37
  • Le Begue, 65
  • Lebert, 306
  • Leschetizki, 308
  • Liadoff, 320
  • Lipawsky, 161
  • Liszt, 193, 264, 271, 287 ff.
  • Locatelli, 82
  • Loeilly, 65
  • Löschhorn, 191
  • Logier, 190
  • Louis Ferdinand, Prince, 164
  • Lully, 44
  • Lütschg, 301
  • Lute in Middle Ages, 11, 77
  • Madrigal, 8, 15, 37 note
  • Marcello, 76
  • Marchand, 91
  • Marius, 122
  • Marpurg, 130
  • M’Dowell, 322
  • Mela, Domenico des, 314
  • Mendelssohn, 152, 198, 249 ff., 250 note
  • Menter, Sophie, 293
  • Merulo, 79 and note
  • Meyerbeer, 194
  • Monochord, 19, 42 note, 77
  • Monteverde, 79
  • Moore, Graham, 322
  • Morley, Thomas, 37
  • Mortier de Fontaine, 293
  • Moscheles 152, 196, 198, 221
  • Moskowski, 306, 325 f.
  • Mozart, 151
  • Mozart and the piano, 135
  • Clavier concerts, 151
  • Sonatas, 153 ff.
  • Miscellaneous, 161
  • Müller, A. E., 190
  • Mulliner Book, 27
  • Munday, John, 36, 93
  • Mussorgsky, 320
  • Naprawnik, 320
  • Neitzel, 316
  • Octave, “short”, 24 note
  • Opera, Italian, 13, 74 ff.
  • Operatic Fantasias, 200
  • Organ, in Middle Ages, 10 ff.
  • Ornamentations, 12, 20, 34, 41, 57 and note, 83 and note
  • In Bull and Byrd, 29
  • Couperin, 57
  • Bach, 108
  • P. E. Bach, 140 ff.
  • End of 18th cent., 150
  • Oury, Madame, 191
  • Pachelbel, 92
  • Pachmann, 301
  • Paderewski, 301, 324
  • Paganini, 207, 282
  • Pape, 133
  • Paradies, 89
  • “Parthenia” (also see Addendum, p. 328), 16
  • Pasquini, 70, 81
  • Pauer, Ernst, 191
  • Paul, Oskar, 18
  • Pedal, 136, 188, (156, picture)
  • With Dussek, 164
  • Adam, 186
  • Hummel, 186
  • Pedal Clavier, 120
  • Penna, Lorenzo, 24
  • Peri, 75, 79
  • Periodicals, musical, 131
  • Phillipps, Peter, 37 and note
  • Pianoforte
  • Modern factories, 309 ff.
  • History of the instrument, 121, 122, 136
  • Viennese and English mechanism, 134, 136, 190
  • Socially, 134, 303
  • As furniture, 313 f.
  • Pianos de luxe, 315
  • Piano and Opera, 201, 326
  • Piano and Orchestra, 150, 199
  • Prices of pianos, 135, 137, 316
  • Piano instruction, 190, 304
  • Conservatoriums, 305
  • Hammerclavier, invention of, 121
  • “Cottage” Piano, 314 (156, 312, 313, pictures)
  • Pièce Croisée, 58, 61
  • Pixis, 187, 191
  • Plaidy, 189, 306
  • Planté, 301
  • Pleyel, 133, 159
  • Pleyel, Madame, 191
  • Pollini, 191
  • Porpora, 89
  • Pradher, 192
  • Programme-Music, old, 49, 92, 93, 132
  • Proksch, 191
  • Prosniz, 28, 328
  • Purcell, 82 note
  • Raff, 323
  • Raif, 306
  • Rameau, 65, 66, 86, 92
  • Reading, the Monk of, 15
  • Rebel, 45
  • Registers or “stops” of Clavier, 23
  • Reincke, 92
  • Reisenauer, 301
  • Repetition, principle of, 72
  • Rheinberger, 323
  • Richardson, Ferdinand, 37
  • Riemann, 307
  • Ries, 191
  • Rimsky-Korsakoff, 320
  • Risler, 190, 301
  • Romantic School, 224
  • Rondo, Old French, 147 note
  • In Philip Emm. Bach, 147
  • In Beethoven, 174
  • Rondo and Sonata, 145
  • Rosellen, 201
  • Rosenhain, 293
  • Rosenthal, 301
  • Rossi, Michael Angelo, 82
  • Rubinstein, Anton, 294 ff.
  • Rubinstein, Nicolas, 300
  • Ruckers, 23, 137, 314
  • Rudolf, Archduke, 191
  • Rudorff, 306
  • Rust, F. W., 163
  • Saint-Saëns, 319
  • Sand, George, 260
  • Sauer, 301
  • Scarlatti, Alessandro, 76, 88
  • Scarlatti, Domenico, 69 ff.
  • Sonatas, 86
  • Technique, 88, 89
  • Cat’s Fugue, 89
  • Scharwenka, Xaver and Philip, 306, 324
  • Schiedmayer, 310
  • Schmitt, Aloys, 191, 192
  • Schobert, 160
  • Scholz, Bernhard, 306
  • Schröter, 122
  • Schubert, 225
  • Miscellaneous, 226
  • “Wanderer” Fantasia, 226
  • Op. 78, 227
  • Impromptus and “Moments,” 228, 229
  • Schulhoff, 191
  • Schumann, 231
  • Schumann and Schubert, 229 ff.
  • Jean Paul, 232
  • Bach, 243
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann, 245
  • Life, 236
  • Clara, 236, 237
  • “Zeitschrift,” 238
  • Works, 231 ff., 238 ff.
  • Miscellaneous, 249
  • Schwarz, Max, 306
  • Schytte, 322, 326
  • Senfl, 92
  • Shakespeare and Music, 5, 6, 7
  • Silbermann, 122, 134, 137
  • Siloti, 301
  • Sinding, 322
  • Sonata
  • Sonata “da camera” and “da chiesa,” 78 note, 84
  • Old Italian, 86
  • Scarlatti, 86 and note
  • Kuhnau, 92
  • Sonata and Suite, 107
  • 18th century, 110
  • Sonata and Rondo, 145
  • Philip Emm. Bach, 143 ff.
  • Haydn, 150
  • Mozart, 153
  • Beethoven, 170 ff.
  • Spath, 135
  • Spinet, 6, 24, 90
  • Spitta, 102, 116
  • Starck, 306
  • Stavenhagen, 301
  • Steibelt, 162
  • Stein, 137
  • Steinway, 310
  • Stenhammer, 322
  • Sterkel, 210
  • Strauss, Richard, 323
  • Streicher, 134
  • Streicher, Nanette, 160
  • Sucher, 303
  • Suite, (see Dance) 106, etc., and see Addendum
  • Suspensions in Couperin, 57
  • Sweelinck, virginal pieces, 26, 37
  • Swietens, Van, 163
  • Szalit, Paula, 301
  • Tadema, Alma, 315
  • Tallis, 27, 32
  • Taubert, 191
  • Tausig, 300, 306
  • Technique, (see under), 187-190, 209
  • Couperin, 64
  • Ph. Emm. Bach, 143
  • Fingering, 116
  • Keyboard, etc., 24, 26
  • Tedesco, 191
  • Temperament, equal and unequal, 101 note, 102
  • Thalberg, 197
  • Thilo, 307
  • Thoroughbass, 78, 79
  • Thumb, technique of, 139 ff.
  • Tielmann, Sufato, 48
  • Tinctoris, 14
  • Tischer, 128
  • Titles of drawing-room pieces, 59, 200
  • Titles (allegorical, etc.) of old pieces, 42, 51, 59 ff.
  • Tomaschek, 191
  • Tschaïkowski, 319
  • Türk, D. G., 185
  • Turini, the elder, 86
  • Turini, the younger, 89
  • Variations, Old English, 33, etc.
  • Venetian instrumental music, 13, 26
  • Viadana, 78
  • Viennese musical life, 160
  • Villoing, 190 (line 8; omitted)
  • Vinci, L., 76
  • Virdung, 20
  • Virgil, 307
  • Virginal, 6, 18, 81
  • Virginal Books, 15, 16, 27, 28
  • Virtuoso and Teacher, 64, 192, 305
  • Life of, 193.
  • Virtuosos playing together, 198
  • Virtuosos and Concerts, 299
  • Vivaldi, 82
  • Volkmann, 318
  • Volkslied in Masses and Motets, 8
  • Vollweiler, 191
  • Wagner (instruments), 137
  • Wallace, 299
  • Wanhal-Vanhall, 190
  • Weber, Dionysius, 191
  • Weber, C. M., 206, 218
  • Weitzmann, 28, 328
  • Wendling, 309
  • Westermayer, 310
  • Widor, 319
  • Willaert, 79
  • Wilmers, 191
  • Wölffl, 161, 183, 190
  • Wolfsohn, 300
  • Wüllner, 306
  • Zimmermann, 317
  • Zumpe, 133