Open AccessPerformer rights and responsibilities in historical performance
Author(s) -
John Irving
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz1416031i
Subject(s) - performing arts , mozart , performance practice , perspective (graphical) , musical , literature , art , visual arts , history , aesthetics
In April 2014, fortepianist and Mozart specialist John Irving recorded a CD of solo keyboard sonatas by Joseph Haydn, using a modern copy of a Viennese fortepiano of Haydn’s era. This is an account of the project written from the performer’s perspective, examining some relevant issues of historical performance practice, organology, and detailed reflections upon the performer’s preparations (of various musical and technical kinds) for the recording