Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Contributors 1. The Piano and the Nineteenth Century Leon Plantinga 2. Orthodoxies, Paradoxes, and Contradictions: Performance Practices in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music Robert S. Winter 3. Beethoven William Kinderman 4. The Piano Works of Schubert Eva Badura-Skoda 5. In Defense of Weber Michael C. Tusa 6. Piano Music Reformed: The Case of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy R. Larry Todd 7. Hearing Poland: Chopin and Nationalism Jeffrey Kallberg 8. Schumann and the Marketplace: From Butterflies to Hausmusik Anthony Newcomb 9. From the Concert Hall to the Salon: The Piano Music of Clara Wieck, Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, Marion Wilson Kimber 10. Brahms: From Classical to Modern, Walter Frisch 11. Expressive Resonance in Liszt's Piano Music, Dolores Pesce Index

About the Author

Larry Todd is a Professor of Music at Duke University. He is a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.