Description
About the Author
Cynthia Adams Hoover is Curator of Musical Instruments at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. She has studied the changing intersections of technology, culture, and commerce of the piano's 300-year history and is co-editor with Edwin M. Good of the annotated diary of William Steinway, the piano company's financial wizard in the 19th century. Patrick Rucker was Project Director and Co-curator of PIANO 300. As a pianist he has presented the 20th-century premieres of many works by Franz Liszt and has written widely on the composer. Edwin M. Good is author of Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos (Stanford University Press), a technological history of the piano. He is co-editor with Cynthia Adams Hoover of the diary of William Steinway and lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he continues his research and plays the piano in chamber music.
Awards
Winner of Winner, 2002 Washington Book Publishers Annual Book Design.
Book Information
ISBN 9780929847085
Author Cynthia Adams Hoover
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Weight(grams) 413g
Dimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 7mm