History of the pianoforte and pianoforte playersBie, Oskar
History
History of the pianoforte and pianoforte players
Bie, Oskar
Pianists; Piano -- History
Dussek (portrait) 165
Cast of Beethoven’s living face, 1812 167
Specimen from Beethoven’s A flat major Sonata, Op. 26 173
Lyser’s Sketch of Beethoven 176
Beethoven’s last Grand Piano, by Graf, Vienna 182
Viennese pianoforte players about 1800. Eberl, Gelinek, Wölffl 183
The Brothers Pixis. 1800 187
Ludwig Berger. Pupil of Clementi 191
John Field, 1782-1837. Steel engraving by C. Mayer 193
Marcelline Czartoryska, _née_ Princess Radziwill 194
Prince Louis Ferdinand 195
Marie Charlotte Antoine Josephe, Countess of Questenberg 197
Clementi (portrait) 208
Hummel in his later years 213
A Canonic Impromptu, by J. N. Hummel 215
Czerny. Lithograph by Kriehuber, 1833 217
Carl Maria von Weber. Lithograph by Eichens, after Vogel, 1825 219
Moscheles in his youth 220
Moscheles, later, 1859 221
Parisian and London Pianists at the beginning of the 19th century.
L. Adam, Kalkbrenner, Cramer 223
Waltz by Schubert 224
Clara Schumann, _née_ Wieck 239
Louis Böhner, the original of Hoffmann’s Kreisler 246
The last piece in Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” main movement 247
Head of Mendelssohn, after Hildebrand 251
George Sand, in man’s dress 259
Chopin’s Hand. From a marble in the National Museum at Budapest 270
An afternoon with Liszt. Kriehuber, Berlioz, Czerny, Liszt, the
violinist Ernst 271
Photograph of Liszt, taken in Budapest 271
Title-page of Hofmeister’s Edition of Liszt’s Op. 1. 273
Liszt in his youth 275
After Dantan’s Caricature of Thalberg 276
After Dantan’s Caricature of Liszt 277
Facsimile of Liszt’s Hungarian Storm-March 279
The “jeune école” of Parisian Pianists 280
Liszt in his youth 281
Cartoon representing Liszt and his Works. 1842 283
“General” Bass surprised and overcome in his fortress by Liszt 284
Liszt and Stavenhagen 285
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