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The reproducing piano had an incredibly refined capacity to reproduce the playing of the great pianists who recorded on it. The turn of the century to 1930 was a period of high activity during which thousands of performances were produced on the reproducing piano roll. Sitsky has made a thorough compilation of this rare material producing for the first time, in as complete a form as possible, the entire repertoire of classical music available on the reproducing piano roll.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Denis Condon The Reproducing Piano Roll: A Treasure-Trove of 19th Century Practice Composer Listing Pianist Listing Appendix I: ARTO Rolls Appendix II: Gershwin's 88-Note Rolls Bibliography: Catalogues and Reference Sources

About the Author

LARRY SITSKY is Head of the Department of Composition, Canberra School of Music, Canberra, Australia, and is an internationally known pianist, and active broadcaster, teacher and lecturer. His numerous articles on music have been appearing regularly since 1974 and his previous book was Busoni and the Piano (Greenwood Press, 1986). He is currently completing The Unknown Russian Avant-Garde forthcoming from Greenwood Press.