Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives Publisher / Gibbs Smith Present Tense captures Schwartz

Present Tense captures Schwartz

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This book is packed full of fascinating questions

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As well as tapping into the nostalgia market

Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives Publisher / Gibbs Smith Present Tense captures SchwartzWomen are an essential part of the history of the pianobut how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male dominated performance spaces. Even the modern piano's keys were designed without consideration of women's typically smaller hands. Yet despite their music being largely confined to the domestic sphere, women continued to play, perform, and