Towards a new history of the piano: a context for the work of Johann Andreas Stein as a piano maker

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pantaleon Hebenstreit -- Bartolomeo Cristofori -- Hebenstreit and Cristofori in Stein's notebook -- Pascal Taskin as a harpsichord maker -- The Cembalo Angelico -- Vincenzio Sodi -- John Joseph Merlin -- Jacques Joachim Swanen -- The keyboard instruments of Queen Maria Bárbara of Spain -- Paolo Morellati -- Christoph Gottlieb Schröter -- Pianos and harpsichords at the court of Frederick the Great -- Gottfried Silbermann as a piano maker -- Wahi Friedrich Fickert and Jacob Adlung -- Frantz Jacob Spath and Christoph Friedrich Schmahl -- Johann Heinrich Silbermann and his brothers -- Johann Heinrich Silbermann, maker of harpsichords and pianos -- Johann Andreas Stein, eclectic inventor -- Johann David Schiedmayer, plain hammers and a variety of stops -- Knee levers and pedals; Burkat Shudi, Jacob Kirkman and others -- Pianos in London in the eighteenth century -- Pianos in Paris in the eighteenth century -- Sébastien Erard -- Epilogue -- Index nominum -- Index rerum -- Bibliography.