Re-Writing for the Salon: The Practice of Arrangement for (Accompanied) Piano in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Orpheus Instituut
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the phenomenon of the arrangement was endemic. As attested to by musical editors’ catalogues of the time, repertoire of all kinds was regularly readapted and rewritten for all sort of instruments. Modern musicology has interpreted this practice as the nineteenth-century equivalent of modern “downloading”: a system of dissemination of the public concert’s repertoire in the domestic setting at a time ...