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Hardcover From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland Book

ISBN: 0195148835

ISBN13: 9780195148831

From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland

It's difficult to imagine Franz Liszt performing in Peoria, but his contemporary and foremost rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did just that. During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans in more than a hundred cities--from Portland, Maine to Dubuque, Iowa to Mobile, Alabama--were treated to performances by some of Europe's most celebrated pianists. From Paris to Peoria deftly chronicles the visits of five of these pianists to the America of Mark Twain...

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