Erard: A Passion for the Piano

by Robert Adelson

S bastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today. Drawing on an unusually rich set of archives from both the Erard firm and the Erard family, author Robert Adelson shows how the Erard
piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late eighteenth century and continuing into the final decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019756531X
• ISBN13: 9780197565315
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.7"