2012 MTNA Conference – Sunday Afternoon – A Natural History of the Piano from Mozart to Jazz and Everything In Between with Stuart Isacoff | Music Matters Blog. Gail Berenson, past president of MTNA welcomed attendees and introduced author, Stuart Isacoff. Stuart began his presentation on A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians – from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between. His goal in conducting this research and writing the book was to look for common threads throughout history instead of considering various periods and aspects of music history in a disjointed manner. He illustrated this point by playing an excerpt from a piece by Couperin that is reflective of parallels in some of Ravel’s music.
An excerpt from Bach seems to be a precursor to Johnny Hodges Jazz music… Stuart continued by giving an overview of what is include in his book, including a history of the invention of the piano by Cristofori (which is actually pronounced with the emphasis on the “o” as a short “o”). [Incidentally, I had the privilege of seeing the original Cristofori piano at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday!
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