Men, Women And Pianos: A Social History | DP17415 - Sheet Music

product id: 38096
Product type: History
Media: Book
Pages: 670
Author: Loesser, Arthur
Language: English
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 27.95 euro

As the "social anchor" in middle-class homes of the 19th century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity and a means of introducing the young to music and entertaining their elders. In this admirably balanced and leisurely account of the popular instrument, the late, internationally known concert pianist Arthur Loesser takes a "piano's-eye view" of the recent social history of Western Europe and the United States.

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