Todd Larry R. (ed.) Nineteenth-Century Piano Music

Schirmer Books, 1990. — xvi + 426 p. — ISBN: 0-02-8772551-4.The piano was the musical instrument of choice in the nineteenth century, emerging as a symbol of respectability, domesticity, and sentimentality. Yet as familiar as the ninteenth-century piano repertoire has become, recent scholarship has brought a new and exciting complexity to our understanding of the music.