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...danced in various temple ceremonies. But the king of all robotmakers was Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-1838), creator of the metronome, who also constructed an automatic orchestra called the Panharmonicon, which could simulate violins, cellos, clarinets, flutes, trumpets, drums, cymbals and triangle. For this contraption, the inventor commissioned Beethoven to compose his Vittoria Symphony, Maelzel also toured America with a robot chess player that was actually operated from inside by a hunchbacked Alsatian dwarf named Schlumberger...
Grove's musical idols were Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and Mendelssohn. But his dictionary mirrored his national biases. Early editions contained the names of English composers and musicians of negligible influence. Though subsequent updatings sought to broaden the work's scope, a major revision was not attempted until the nine-volume fifth edition of Grove's in 1954. However, Grove's was still dominated by the tastes of a single editor, on that occasion, the late English critic Eric Blom...
Illustrating his lecture with frequent trips to the piano, Rosen first demonstrated the difference between written music and the sound produced when that music is played. Both Bach and Beethoven wrote work in which written notes are inaudible but cause the listener to "imagine the links between notes," he said...
Rosen played excerpts from Beethoven's third piano concerto and a Chopin waltz to show the difference between the romantic and classical use of the piano pedal. Whereas Beethoven used the pedal "only as a special effect to reinforce motifs and dynamics," romantic composers considered the removal of the pedal a special effect, he said...
During his one year stay at Harvard, Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," is teaching a fall seminar on "Music of the 1820s...