Bie treats the piano’s history as inseparable from its literature: the clavichord and harpsichord and what was lost and gained, the makers, and then the players and composers — Bach’s sons, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, the salon virtuosos — with facsimiles and portraits throughout.
The piano and its players, in a handsomely illustrated history. Download the free EPUB.