fm1.1 Oscar Peterson (Veryl Oakland)
1.1 A Berlin cartoon of Liszt at the height of his powers; women would swoon and throw jewelry onto the stage.
1.2 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, with Lil Hardin (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
1.3 The Oscar Peterson Trio of the 1950s: guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Ray Brown, and Peterson (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
1.4 James Reese Europe and his band (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
2.1 A typical harpsichord for the home. Keene Bentside Spinet, ca. 1700 (L2009.17), on loan to Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Courtesy of Edgardo C. Sodero. (MIM/Holly Metz)
2.2 Ferdinando de’Medici with his musicians, by Antonio Domenico Gabbiani (1652–1726) (Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence)
2.3 Scipione Maffei’s diagram of Bartolomeo Cristofori’s piano action, 1711
3.1 Lincoln Center at night (© 1999 David Lamb Photography)
3.2 The Mozarts in the 1780s, by Johann Nepomuk della Croce: Nannerl, Wolfgang, and father Leopold. Mother Anna Maria had passed away in 1778, but her portrait appears on the wall.
3.3 An anonymous portrait of the young prodigy, 1763
3.4 Zumpe square piano (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution)
3.5 Muzio Clementi
3.6 The Borgato pedal piano (Courtesy of Luigi Borgato)
3.7 Mozart in his red coat
4.1 Franciolini harpsichord, ca. 1890 (T2009.440.2) © Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (MIM/Holly Metz)
4.2 The moral hazards of piano lessons. The Comforts of Bath: The Music Master, by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827). Watercolor, pen and ink. (New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)
4.3 Portrait of Miss Margaret Casson at the piano, 1781, by George Romney (1734–1802) (Courtesy of Philip Mould Ltd)
4.4 Sewing table piano (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution)
4.5 A Hawkins portable piano (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution)
4.6 A Giraffe Piano (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution)
5.1 Clara Wieck
5.2 John Field
5.3 Leopold de Meyer
5.4 Henri Herz
5.5 Caricature of Gottschalk conducting his monster concert in Rio de Janeiro, October 5, 1869 (A Vida Fluminense, October 2, 1869)
5.6 The hands of piano team Vronsky and Babin
5.7 Piano circus
7.1 Beethoven and the Blind Maiden, by Friedrich Bodenmüller (1845–1913). An artist’s rendering of Beethoven conjuring the healing angels. © Beethoven-Haus Bonn
7.2 Joseph Haydn
7.3 Franz Liszt as a young man
7.4 Liszt in his later years
7.5 Liszt in concert, from a Hungarian magazine, April 6, 1873. Drawings by János Jánko
7.6 Béla Bartók with pianist György Sandor
7.7 Stravinsky playing The Rite of Spring, by Jean Cocteau
7.8 Ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who commissioned The Rite of Spring, and Igor Stravinsky
7.9 Arthur Rubinstein (Courtesy of Eva Rubinstein)
7.10 Jerry Lee Lewis album cover
7.11 Eubie Blake
7.12 Earl Hines (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
7.13 Cecil Taylor (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
8.1 Claude Debussy
8.2 Marie d’Agoult
8.3 Pianist Josef Hofmann and Alexander Scriabin, Moscow, ca. 1892
8.4 Modest Mussorgsky
8.5 Bill Evans (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
8.6 Herbie Hancock (Francis Wolff)
8.7 Bill Charlap with singer Tony Bennett (Courtesy of Blue Note Records)
8.8 Duke Ellington in a rare informal pose (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
8.9 Billy Strayhorn (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
8.10 Thelonious Monk (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
8.11 John Cage preparing a piano, ca. 1960 (Photo by Ross Welser. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust)
8.12 Terry Riley (Betty Freeman)
8.13 An early player piano
9.1 The Plantation. Anonymous. (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.2 Jelly Roll Morton (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.3 James P. Johnson
9.4 Dance team Buck and Bubbles (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.5 Meade “Lux” Lewis (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.6 Fats Waller (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.7 Willie “the Lion” Smith and Duke Ellington (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.8 Willie “the Lion” Smith’s business card (Courtesy of Mike Lipskin)
9.9 Billie Holiday accompanied by Art Tatum (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.10 Count Basie and his band, 1943, with singer Dorothy Dandridge (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.11 Sir Roland Hanna (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.12 Billy Taylor
9.13 Hazel Scott (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.14 Mary Lou Williams (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
9.15 Professor Longhair
9.16 Mac Rebennack (“Dr. John”) (Lisa Houlgrave. Courtesy of Blue Note Records)
9.17 Chucho Valdés (Courtesy of Blue Note Records)
9.18 Eddie Palmieri (Tad Hershorn)
9.19 Dave Brubeck (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
10.1 Franz Schubert, lithograph of 1846 by J. Kriehuber (1801–1876)
10.2 Robert Schumann
10.3 The Sphinxes chart in Schumann’s Carnaval
10.4 Young Brahms
10.5 The older Brahms
10.6 Felix Mendelssohn
10.7 Frédéric Chopin
10.8 Erik Satie by Jean Cocteau
10.9 Maurice Ravel
10.10 George Gershwin at the piano
10.11 Gershwin’s hands
10.12 Nat “King” Cole (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
10.13 Teddy Wilson (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
10.14 George Shearing (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
10.15 Bud Powell (Courtesy of Mosaic Images)
11.1 Scott Joplin from the cover of The Cascades (Courtesy of Edward Berlin)
11.2 Mrs. H. H. A. Beach
11.3 Charles Ives
11.4 Aaron Copland
11.5 Tango dancers from Erik Satie’s Sports et divertissements, drawings by Charles Martin
11.6 Alberto Ginastera with pianist Barbara Nissman
12.1 Anton Rubinstein
12.2 Rubinstein Plays for the Czar (detail), by F. Luis Mora, was one of the first paintings commissioned for the Steinway art collection. (Courtesy of Steinway & Sons)
12.3 Vladimir de Pachmann
12.4 Vladimir Horowitz
12.5 Sergei Rachmaninoff
12.6 Sviatoslav Richter
12.7 Emil Gilels
12.8 Richter with Neuhaus
12.9 The Steinway “GI” piano in the field, 1943 (La Guardia and Wagner Archives)
12.10 Vladimir Ashkenazy (Courtesy of Deutsche Telekom AG)
12.11 Sergei Prokofiev
12.12 Tatiana Nikolayeva
13.1 The Wagners, with Bülow in tow
13.2 Arthur Schnabel and family
13.3 A young Claudio Arrau (Courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf)
13.4 Arrau the mature artist (Courtesy of Philips)
13.5 Alfred Brendel with Juilliard student Eun Ae Lee (Peter Schaaf)
13.6 An 1893 illustration: A PEACEFUL SOLUTION. AT THE NEXT WORLD’S FAIR PADEREWSKI WILL PLAY ON ALL THE PIANOS AT ONCE.
14.1 Arthur Rubinstein revisiting his hometown of Lodz, Poland, in 1976 (Courtesy of Eva Rubinstein)
14.2 Young Josef Hofmann
14.3 Sir Clifford Curzon
14.4 The Atkins Finger-Supporting Device
14.5 The vise
14.6 Van Cliburn at the Moscow competition
14.7 Cliburn’s tickertape parade in New York
15.1 Pianists Glenn Gould and Arthur Rubinstein, relaxing together in New York in 1969 (Photo by Eva Rubinstein)
15.2 Rosalyn Tureck, Bach specialist and early advocate of synthesizers
15.3 From the Busby Berkeley film Gold Diggers of 1935
15.4 Earl Wild
15.5 Peter Schickele as P. D. Q. Bach (Peter Schaaf)
16.1 Richard Stoltzman and Menahem Pressler at Le Poisson Rouge (Peter Schaaf)
16.2 Margaret Leng Tan at her toy piano (© 1993 Jack Vartoogian/Front Row Photos)
16.3 The Alma-Tadema Steinway (Courtesy of Steinway & Sons)
16.4 Dale Chihuly’s Olympia Steinway (Courtesy of Steinway & Sons)
16.5 Pianist Evan Shinners performing from inside a Bechstein piano in Stop, Repair, Prepare at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2010 (Adrienne Isacoff)
app.1 Steven Lubin (Jack Mitchell)
app.2 Erroll Garner (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University)
app.3 Ernesto Lecuona
app.4 Teresa Carreño at age eight, and as an adult
app.5 Peter Tchaikovsky
app.6 Evgeny Kissin
app.7 Percy Grainger
app.8 Piece for chess piano and strings by Guido van der Werve performed at the Marshall Chess Club, New York City (Guido van der Werve)