Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums [Hardcover]

Information for when you travel. By country and city, you are guided to the best instrument collections in Europe. For each site is provided a substantial discussion of the instruments, location, address, and hours of admission. There are abundant black and white (many full-page) photos, a glossary of terms associated with earlier instruments, and an index of makers. Piano & Keyboard

Growing out of the authors visits to 47 collections in Europe, this lively guidebook offers intimate glimpses at a great variety of instruments. It focuses on the more important and unusual holdings in each museum, such as the Cristofori pianos in Rome and Leipzig and the earliest known English double-manual instrumenta 1700 harpsichord by Tisseran, now in Oxford. In addition, the authors provide travelers with essential information for each museum.

EDWARD L. KOTTICK, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, is author of The Harpsichord Owners Guide. A builder himself, he writes a regular column in Continuo magazine for owners and builders.
GEORGE LUCKTENBERG, Adjunct Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence at Reinhardt College, has been director of the Ali?nor Harpsichord Composition Awards since 1980.

Preface by George Lucktenberg
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Austria
Eisenstadt: Burgenla ndsiche Landesmuseum; Joseph Haydn Museum; Franz Liszt
Museum
Salzburg: Mozarts Birthplace; Museum Carolino Augustem
Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum; Technisches Museum fu r Industrie und Gewerbe
II. Belgium
AntwerpL Vleeshuis Museum; Plantin-Moretus Museum
Bruges: Gruuthuse Museum
Brussels: Musee Instrumental de Bruxelles
III. Czech Republic
Prague: National Museum
IV. Denmark
Copenhagen: Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudius Samling
V. France
Paris: Musee de la Musique; Musee des Arts et Metiers
VI. Germany
Bad Krozlingen: Neumeyer-Junghanns-Tracey Collection
Berlin: Schloss Chl#$