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December 8, 2024

Erard A Passion for the Piano

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Free Download Erard: A Passion for the Piano by Robert Adelson
English | March 19, 2021 | ISBN: 019756531X | True EPUB/PDF | 258 pages | 8.8/17.4 MB
Sébastien 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 of the nineteenth.

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