Hello everyone, I've been reading for a long time but have only just subscribed.
The reason is that I received a newsletter that seems particularly interesting to me: at the beginning of March, Piero Rattalino's Guide to Pianistic Music will be released by Zecchini Editore, which has already published many books by Rattalino.
I'll copy some info for you:
The Guide to Piano Literature is set up more as a historical encyclopedia than a catalogue. Cataloguing data has been kept to a minimum because the publication intends to appeal primarily to an audience of enthusiasts, rather than experts, and the analytical elements drawn from historical circumstances, biographies, descriptions, language, structures, instrumentation, and dramaturgy found in different authors and compositions are therefore used for a critical evaluation concerning both the artistic and sociological aspects of the music under examination. There are 109 composers discussed. There could have been more if the Author had dedicated less space to the major protagonists, and there could have been fewer in the case of a more restrictive selection. Regarding the inclusion or exclusion of this or that composer, the most disparate opinions can be quite legitimately expressed. The Author alone is responsible for the choice, which depended essentially on the dimension to be given to the volume—neither too slim nor exorbitant—moving according to both objective, indisputable criteria and personal, subjective, and debatable preferences. A broad sociological essay precedes the "entries" because the Author believes it is important for the reader to know, at least in broad terms, the history of the instrument, its technological evolution, its place in the musical world, and thus the field of concrete possibilities within which composers moved and operated at different times and in different circumstances. Both compositions for solo piano and for piano and orchestra are examined, as the contiguity between the two fields is such that it was advisable to keep the two treatments together rather than separate.
Anyway, there should be more on the Zecchini website
Hello everyone
Antonio
