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The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist

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The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist - Beghin, Tom
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This is a highly original book about Haydn s keyboard music, about 18th-century keyboard practices and culture, and about performance. Written in the first person by the author, himself a professional keyboard player, the study places the performer, both historical and contemporary, at the center of the scholarly inquiry and explores in exquisite detail the process by which a modern performer arrives at a historically-informed interpretation of Haydn s sonatas. The veiled reference to Diderot s "Paradox of an Actor "in the ...

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The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist 2015, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226156774

Hardcover