Learn how Mozart unveiled his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet picture European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush hear about Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother and of Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. His book, A Natural History of the Piano, distills a lifetime of research and passion in one brilliant narrative. In this multi-media presentation, the author unfolds the history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.
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