{"id":61096,"date":"2026-09-23T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/?post_type=ajde_events&#038;p=61096"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:16:15","slug":"book-presentation-the-great-piano-maker-by-jeremy-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/events\/book-presentation-the-great-piano-maker-by-jeremy-nicholas\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Presentation: &#8220;The Great Piano Makers&#8221; by Jeremy Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018An invaluable source of information\u2026 Very warmly recommended\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Nigel Simeone,&nbsp;<em>Gramophone<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018The most up-to-date and useful guide to the subject\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<em>BBC Music Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018The kind you take down to check a solitary fact, then find yourself still reading, engrossed, an hour later\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Richard Bratby,&nbsp;<em>International Piano<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In vivid and lively style, Jeremy Nicholas \u2014 one of the UK\u2019s most respected writers on the piano and pianists \u2014 presents a chronological survey of the great piano makers, from Cristofori to Fazioli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the end of the 18th century, piano music has been the most popular of all genres of musical composition, and the piano remains one of the most commonly-used instruments in public performance. There have been any number of books about the famous composers who wrote for the piano \u2014 but few about the ingenious, courageous and skilled entrepreneurs who built the instruments we listen to and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the stories behind more than 100 piano makers: from the giants of today with familiar names \u2014 Steinway, Bechstein, Yamaha \u2014 to once-famous brands like Chickering, Collard &amp; Collard and F\u00f6rster; from pioneers like Henri Pape, S\u00e9bastien \u00c9rard and John McTammany, to salutes to the long-forgotten Pantal\u00e9on Hebenstreit and Alois H\u00e1ba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018Written with the lightest touch, but there\u2019s no loss of detail\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<em>Gramophone<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61097,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[270,268,808],"event_type_2":[767],"class_list":["post-61096","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-zelioli-lanzini-room","event_type-music-culture-en","event_type-piano-en","event_type-presentation","event_type_2-sunday-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/61096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/61096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61256,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/61096\/revisions\/61256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61096"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=61096"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=61096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}