Table Of ContentThe Piano in nineTeenTh-CenTury
BriTish CulTure
The Piano in nineteenth-Century
British Culture
instruments, Performers and repertoire
Edited by
Therese ellsworTh and susan wollenBerg
Foreword by nicholas Temperley
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The piano in nineteenth-century British culture: instruments, performers and repertoire. –
(Music in nineteenth-century British culture)
1. Piano music – great Britain – history and criticism 2. Music – social aspects – great
Britain – history – 19th century 3. Piano – great Britain – history – 19th century 4. Piano
music – great Britain – analysis, appreciation 5. Piano music – 19th century
i. ellsworth, Therese Marie ii. wollenberg, susan
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The piano in nineteenth-century British culture: instruments, performers and repertoire /
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ISBN 978-0-7546-6143-6 (alk. paper)
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
List of Music Examples xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Foreword by Nicholas Temperley xv
Acknowledgements xxi
Abbreviations xxiii
General Editor’s Series Preface xxv
1 introduction 1
Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg
2 ‘That Domestic and long-suffering instrument’: The Piano Boom in 13
nineteenth-Century Belfast
Roy Johnston
3 ‘Most ingenious, most learned, and yet practicable work’: The 33
english reception of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier in the First half of
the nineteenth Century seen through the editions Published in london
Yo Tomita
4 The Faces of Parnassus: Towards a new reception of Muzio Clementi’s 69
Gradus ad Parnassum
Rohan Stewart-MacDonald
5 Mendelssohnian Allusions in the Early Piano Works of William 101
sterndale Bennett
R. Larry Todd
6 william sterndale Bennett, Composer and Pianist 119
Peter Horton
7 Victorian Pianists as Concert artists: The Case of arabella goddard 149
(1836–1922)
Therese Ellsworth
8 origins of the Piano recital in england, 1830–1870 171
Janet Ritterman and William Weber
vi The Piano in nineTeenTh-CenTury BriTish CulTure
9 ‘Remarkable force, finish, intelligence and feeling’: Reassessing the 193
Pianism of walter Bache
Michael Allis
10 Fanny Davies: ‘a messenger for schumann and Brahms’? 217
Dorothy de Val
11 Three oxford Pianistic Careers: Donald Francis Tovey, Paul Victor 239
Mendelssohn Benecke and Ernest Walker
Susan Wollenberg
Index 263
list of Figures
2.1 The Programme of liszt’s Concert, as advertised in the Northern Whig, 23
9 January 1841. By courtesy of the linenhall library, Belfast
2.2 Programme of the Belfast anacreontic society Concert of 19 november 26
1855, from the Malcolm Scrapbook. By courtesy of the Linenhall
library, Belfast
3.1 J.W. Windsor’s Memoranda written on page 1 of the flyleaf in his copy 39
of the Well-Tempered Clavier. reproduced by permission of the
royal College of Music, london
3.2 J.w. windsor’s Memorandum written on the last page of his copy of 41
the Well-Tempered Clavier. reproduced by permission of the royal
College of Music, london
3.3 Diagram showing the genealogy of the english editions of the 46
Well-Tempered Clavier in relation to the imported editions shown in
the box
3.4 Title-pages of the Simrock (above) and Broderip/Wilkinson (below) 48
editions. reproduced by permission of the riemenschneider Bach
institute, Baldwin-wallace College, Berea, ohio
3.5 Title-pages of the Birchall (above) and Boosey (below) editions. 50
reproduced by permission of the riemenschneider Bach institute,
Baldwin-wallace College, Berea, ohio
3.6 Title-pages of the lavenu (above) and addison & hodson (below) 52
editions. reproduced by permission of the riemenschneider Bach
institute, Baldwin-wallace College, Berea, ohio
3.7 Bar 12 of the Fugue in C major from Part 1 of the Well-Tempered 53
Clavier as it appears in the wesley/horn (left) and Czerny (right)
editions
3.8 The first page of the C major fugue from Part 2 of the Well-Tempered 56
Clavier in a.F.C. Kollmann’s Essay on Practical Musical
Composition, london, 1799. reproduced by permission of the royal
College of Music, london
3.9 First page of the D minor prelude from Part 1 of the Well-Tempered 58
Clavier in william shield’s Introduction to Harmony, london,
1800. reproduced by permission of the royal College of Music,
london
viii The Piano in nineTeenTh-CenTury BriTish CulTure
3.10 second page of the D minor prelude from Part 1 of the Well- 59
Tempered Clavier in william shield’s Introduction to Harmony,
london, 1800. reproduced by permission of the royal College of
Music, london
3.11 Prelude in C major transposed to e major and shortened as appears in 64
The Beauties of Mozart, Handel, Pleyel, Beethoven and Other
Celebrated Composers (london, c.1820). reproduced by permission
of Queen’s university Belfast library
4.1 Muzio Clementi, Sonata in F minor, op. 13 no. 6, first movement. 88
Sonates pour Piano de Clementi, ed. henry litolff, vol. iii
(Braunschweig–New York, 1868)
4.2 Muzio Clementi, Sonata in B minor, op. 40 no. 2, first movement. 91
Sonaten für das Pianoforte von Muzio Clementi: Neue sorgfältig
revidirte Ausgabe, Dritter Band (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1881)
4.3 Muzio Clementi, ex. 61 from Gradus ad Parnassum. Gradus ad 92
Parnassum, ou l’art de jouer le Pianoforte, démontré par des Exercices
dans le style sévère et dans le style élégant … par Muzio Clementi, vol.
ii (leipzig–Berlin, 1868)
4.4 Muzio Clementi, ex. 38 from Gradus ad Parnassum. Gradus ad 95
Parnassum, ou l’art de jouer le Pianoforte, démontré par des Exercices
dans le style sévère et dans le style élégant … par Muzio Clementi,
vol. ii (leipzig–Berlin, 1868)
7.1 Title-Page of ‘Miss arabella goddard’s Pianoforte répertoire’ 161
(london: [Chappell and T. Boosey, 1859–63]). By courtesy of oliver
Davies from his private collection
list of Tables
3.1 Complete editions of the Well-Tempered Clavier 44
3.2 Advertisements placed by Robert Cocks in the Times that included his 55
edition of the Well-Tempered Clavier (1838)
3.3 Pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier included in theoretical 60
treatises
3.4 Pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier assembled and arranged in 62
a Miscellaneous Collection
3.5 Pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier as part of studies included 66
in ‘Keyboard Tutors’
4.1 Works by Clementi and J.B. Cramer in Associated Board Syllabuses 72
(piano performing): 1918–2004
4.2 British and Continental Didactic Piano Works between 1804 and 1833 79
4.3 Distribution of Contrapuntal Movements in the three volumes of the 83
Gradus ad Parnassum
5.1 w.s. Bennett, Piano sonata in F minor, op. 13 108
5.2 w.s. Bennett, Romanza in g minor, op. 14 no. 3 115
7.1 List of Works performed by Arabella Goddard at her Series of Three 163
recitals in london, July 1869
7.2 summary of Destinations where arabella goddard appeared during 164
her Concert Tours, 1873–6
9.1 Liszt Piano Works Performed by Walter Bache in his Concert Series 198
9.2 non-lisztian repertoire performed by Bache in his Concert series 206
9.3 Bache’s one-Composer Programmes in his Concert series 213
11.1 Ernest Walker, Early Concert Performances at the Oxford University 243
Musical union (ouMu)
11.2 Ernest Walker, Balliol Concerts, January–October 1894 246
11.3 P.V.M. Benecke’s Performances at the Oxford University Musical 252
Club (ouMC), 1886–9
11.4 Ernest Walker and Donald Francis Tovey, Balliol Concerts 1894 257
