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From Paris to Peoria : how European piano virtuosos brought classical music to the American heartland
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From Paris to Peoria : how European piano virtuosos brought classical music to the American heartland

Author: R Allen Lott
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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"It's difficult to imagine Franz Liszt performing in Peoria, but his contemporary and foremost rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did just that. During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans in more than a hundred cities - from Portland, Maine, to Dubuque, Iowa, to Mobile, Alabama - were treated to performances by some of Europe's most celebrated pianists. From Paris to Peoria deftly chronicles the visits of five of these  Read more...
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Named Person: Leopold von Meyer; Henri Herz; Sigismond Thalberg; Anton Rubinstein; Hans von Bülow; Leopold von Meyer; Henri Herz; Sigismond Thalberg; Anton Rubinstein; Hans von Bülow
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: R Allen Lott
ISBN: 0195148835 9780195148831
OCLC Number: 48084062
Description: xviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Leopold de Meyer (1845-47) --
Henri Herz (1846-50) --
Sigismund Thalberg (1856-58) --
Anton Rubinstein (1872-73) --
Hans von Bülow (1875-76).
Responsibility: R. Allen Lott.
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This is a chronicle of the American visits of five pianists: Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubenstein and Hans von Bulow. Allen Lott describes the clash between the elegant  Read more...

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Lott provides insightful comments ... [he] also provides considerable information about the social conditions and attitudes of mid-nineteenth-century America, in particular in regard to the arts ... Read more...

 
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