Clavichord & Early Piano
STUDYING WITH MACARIO KASTNER A HALF-CENTURY AGO by Joan Benson De Clavicordio VIII, Musica Antica a Magnana, 2007 Traveling to Professor Kastner in Lisbon proved an adventure. In May 1960 Continue Reading →
The Clavichord in 20th Century America By Joan Benson Originally published in “Livro De Homenagem a Macario Santiago Kastner”, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Servico de Musica; Lisboa, 1992 During the American Continue Reading →
Recollections of Edwin Fischer by Joan Benson (as told to Timothy Tikker) Journal of the American Liszt Society; Volume 21/January-June 1987 “Edwin Fischer was born in Basel on 6 October Continue Reading →
Qigong for Pianists by Joan Benson Piano and Keyboard; September/October, 1998 On a bitterly cold December day I was scheduled to record a disk of Fanny Mendelssohn’s music on an Continue Reading →
Piano to Clavichord (1925-1962) by Joan Benson Clavichord International – Volume 10, Number 2, November 2006 When I was born in 1925, there was a piano in nearly every parlor. Continue Reading →
Clavichord Technique in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Joan Benson De Clavicordio I, Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Atti del Congresso Internazionalie sul Clavicordo, Magnano, 1993 A hundred years ago Continue Reading →
Clavichord Perspectives from Goethe to Pound by Joan Benson De Clavicordio VI; Proceedings of the VI International Clavichord Symposium; September, 2003; Bruachli, Galazzo, and Moody, ed; The International Center for Continue Reading →
Bach and the Clavier by Joan Benson Clavier, Volume 29, No. 2, February 1990 In the world of Johann Sebastian Bach, as in the world of this magazine, the word Continue Reading →