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Florence Gétreau, ed. Musique–Images–Instruments N° 11: Le pianoforte en France 1780–1820 (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2009). 286 pp. 35€.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2013

Nathalie Hérold
Nathalie Hérold*
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Université de Strasbourg/LabEx GREAM Université Pierre-Mendès-France (Grenoble 2)nathalieherold@hotmail.com
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , December 2012 , pp. 326 - 331
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References

1 Gas-Ghidina, Catherine and Jam, Jean-Louis eds., Aux origines de l’école française de pianoforte (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2004)Google Scholar

2 These volumes have covered a wide range of historical periods, ranging from Renaissance to nineteenth century, and subjects: new timbres, regional schools and traditions, musical instrument collections, pianoforte and orchestra.

3 Christophe Coin is artistic director of the Ensemble baroque de Limoges, resident in the château of La Borie en Limousin.

4 Éric de Visscher is director of the Musée de la Musique (Paris), which has a large collection of pianofortes, several of which are discussed in the volume under review here.

5 d'Alembert, Denis Diderot et eds., Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres (Paris: Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand, 1751–1757Google Scholar

6 Cf. Supplément à l'encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres (Paris: Panckoucke, Stoupe & Brunet; Amsterdam: Rey, 1776–7). Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines, mis en ordre par M. De Felice (Yverdon: 1770–80). Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Mis en ordre & publié par M. Diderot; & quant à la partie mathématique, par M. d'Alembert. […] Nouvelle édition (Geneva: Pellet, 1777–9; Lyon: le Roy, 1780–81). Encyclopédie méthodique, ou par ordre de matières: par une société de gens de lettres, de savans et d'artistes (Paris and Liège: Panckoucke and Plomteux, 1782–91).

7 Rowland, David E., A History of Pianoforte Pedalling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 Anders Askenfelt, ed., Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the Piano, <www.speech.kth.se/music/5_lectures/>, accessed 2 June 2012,+accessed+2+June+2012>Google Scholar

9 Five historic square pianos are preserved in the Musée des Arts décoratifs of Strasbourg.

10 It would have been helpful to clarify the abbreviations in these plans.

11 Among the 38 pianos identified here, several belong to individual collections, but six are preserved in the Musée de la Musique of Paris.

12 Hering, Hans, ‘Orchestrale Klaviermusik’, Acta musicologica 46 (1974): pp. 76–91CrossRefGoogle Scholar

13 Florence Gétreau, ‘éléments de bibliographie sur le pianoforte en France, 1780–1820: texte complémentaire’, <www.irpmf.cnrs.fr>, accessed May 12, 2012.

14 Cf. <www.irpmf.cnrs.fr>, accessed May 12, 2012.

15 See, for example, the untranslated French quotations in Latcham's and Clarke's English articles (pp. 18–45 and pp. 98–125), and the untranslated German quotation in Battault's French article, p. 49.