Background
Clinkscale, Martha Novak was born on June 16, 1933 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Joseph John and Ophia May Novak.
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The early piano has grown in popularity over recent years. It is now recognized as a window to the past and indispensable in revealing the sounds in the ears of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. Fulfilling a need for a comprehensive study of early pianos, Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 is the first book to present details about all known extant pianos built during the earliest years of the instrument's existence. Biographical information about each maker and such details about his instruments as the place and date of manufacture, style, compass, case description and measurements, strings, action, stops, pedals, and present and former owners are given. Bibliographical references are listed separately for the individual pianos. Builders whose pianos have been lost are identified; however, anonymous pianos have not been included unless an attribution to a known maker is likely. Principal collections with their catalogues and an exhaustive bibliography complete this valuable reference work.
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This book continues the overview of early pianos begun in Clinkscale's Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (OUP, 1993). Although a few of the biographies overlap, the majority of the makers are completely new. Approximately 2,400 makers and manufacturers and about 2,200 pianos are listed. Of this total, about 645 are English, the majority of whom were active in London; more than 200 of the London makers have not been discussed in previous publications.
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Clinkscale, Martha Novak was born on June 16, 1933 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Joseph John and Ophia May Novak.
Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, University Louisville, 1953. Master of Music in Piano Performance, Yale University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology, University Minnesota, 1970.
Music library, accompanist Chaffey College, Alta Loma, California, 1965—1968. Visiting lecturer California State University, San Bernardino, University Redlands. Lecturer piano, fortepiano, chamber music University California, Riverside, 1979—1996.
Visiting lecturer California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1989—1990. Adjunct professor fortepiano emerita Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1998—2004. Presenter in field.
(This book continues the overview of early pianos begun in...)
(The early piano has grown in popularity over recent years...)
Member of Western Early Keyboard Society, Royal Museum Association, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Galpin Society, Midwestern History Keyboard Society, International Musicol. Society, International Council on Museums, Committee International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments de Musique, American Musicol. Society (treasurer Pacific Southwest chapter 1985-1987, vice president Pacific Southwest chapter 1990-1992, member national chapter fund committee 1991-1994, president Pacific Southwest chapter 1992-1996, chair national chapter fund committee 1993-1994), American Musical Instrument Society (board governors 1991-1995), American Institute Verdi Studies, Southeastern History Keyboard Society (board member 1998—2003, chair nominating committee 2003-2004, member journal oversight committee since 2003, treasurer 2004-2008), Sigma Alpha Iota, Pi Kappa Lambda.
Married Alfred Thorpe Loeffler, Junior, April 7, 1955 (divorced October 1966). Children: Alfred Thorpe Loeffler III, Lise Morrison Loeffler-Welton. Married Edward Henry Clinkscale, March 4, 1968 (deceased July 1994).