Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Harpsichords & More Harpsichords -- Spinets -- Clavichords -- Virginals : Portrait of a Collection -- The Beurmann Collection in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg & at the Estate of Hasselburg, Hardback Book

Harpsichords & More Harpsichords -- Spinets -- Clavichords -- Virginals : Portrait of a Collection -- The Beurmann Collection in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg & at the Estate of Hasselburg Hardback

Hardback

Item not Available

Description

Keyboard instruments are living witnesses of past times.

Their splendid appearance together with their tonal magic produces an almost mystical attraction which has endured for centuries.

All this, with his love of music and his passion for historic instruments, was the incentive for the author to assemble his collection, piece by piece.

Steadily, many precious instruments were acquired over the years.

The collection grew to one of the most significant of its type.

It contains a plethora of especially rare treasures -- the oldest French harpsichord, and many other preciousnesses, in fact, about 100 instruments are treated here.

The book is a pictorial account of a famous collection.

The reader is asked to learn more from the plates than from the text.

Nonetheless, it is still a catalogue, with both organological notes and comments on the history of plucked keyboard instruments and clavichords.

Information

Other Formats

Save 15%

£75.99

£63.95

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information