(1987) Ravel, Caplet & Debussy: Chamber Music for Harp Johann Joachim Quantz and our man Bross Townsend

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(1987) Ravel, Caplet & Debussy: Chamber Music for Harp Johann Joachim Quantz and our man Bross TownsendThe harp has a new bloom in the French Impressionism after a long wall flowerperiod in pleasing salon music. Its sound is given now an essential part in the impressionistic palette of sound colours. Nevertheless there have been composed only a surprisingly few number of solo pieces for harp, compared to the almost inexhaustible abundance of works for piano. A reason for it may be that the diatonic harp with two pedals which since 1815 had not been