Steinway and Sons: Amazon.de: Richard K. Lieberman: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 384 Seiten
Verlag: Yale Univ Pr; Auflage: Reprint (September 1997)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0300068506
ISBN-13: 978-0300068504
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 22,7 x 15,1 x 2,4 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 419.149 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

M�chten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?

Ist der Verkauf dieses Produkts f�r Sie nicht akzeptabel?

Entdecken Sie B�cher, lesen Sie �ber Autoren und mehr

› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Richard K. Lieberman auf Amazon

From Booklist

Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg founded Steinway & Sons in 1853 to build grand pianos with superior sound and action. The company's story is that of four generations of a large family, labor and management relations, marketing, and general economic conditions. Until 1972, the firm's presidents and key men were Steinway family members, most of whom had a better knack for making high-quality pianos than for running a profitable business. Accordingly, management sought good craftsmen but paid the lowest wages they could, which led to many strikes. Additionally, the Steinways saw their market as grand pianos and resisted making instruments the working classes could afford; so during recessions, profits and capital dried up. Fifth company president Henry Z. Steinway tired of running the company in the face of vigorous competition from Yamaha and sold out to CBS but remains as company historian and endorser of the pianos. Essentially, Lieberman gives us the history of one family--with its share of scandals, dissidents, and incompetents--who stood for quality but ran a business for profits at the expense of workers. Alan Hirsch -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

Kurzbeschreibung

The Steinway - once called the "instrument of the immortals" - is considered by many as more than the pre-eminent American piano. It is also a symbol of "Old World" craftsmanship combined with American capitalism, of technological innovation, and of remarkable family management. This study tells the story of the Steinway piano company and the people behind it. Based on the archive of Steinway business and family papers at LaGuardia Community College in New York, as well as on interviews with family members and company employees in the United States, Germany and England, the book describes the making and marketing of an American cultural icon. Founded in New York in 1853 by a German immigrant, the Steinway company quickly rose to prominence on the strength of the distinctive "Steinway sound". For five generations Steinways steered their company in the face of domestic and foreign competition, bitter labour disputes, temperamental musicians, a fluctuating economy, and wars. Members of the Gilded Age elite, the family also contended with adultery, alcoholism, emotional depression and long court battles over money. Lieberman discusses the company town the Steinways built in Queens in the 1870s, to "escape the machinations of the anarchists and socialists" in the city; the decision to manufacture in both New York and Hamburg, which led to Steinway factories supplying both sides in World War II; the improvements in piano technology that made the Steinway the envy of other piano makers; the company's creative marketing techniques, such as booking celebrated European pianists into American concert halls; the competition from the Japanese-owned Yamaha company; and the sale of the financially troubled company to CBS in 1972. Weaving together themes from social, music, business, labour and immigrant history, and illustrated with pictures from the Steinway archive, this text aims to cast light on American cultural history and on a family enterprise.

Alle Produktbeschreibungen

Einleitungssatz
"I know a fine way to treat a Steinway," goes Irving Berlin's song "I Love a Piano." Lesen Sie die erste Seite

Mehr entdecken
Wortanzeiger

Wenn Sie ein Verleger oder Autor sind und die digitalen Rechte an einem Buch haben, k�nnen Sie die digitale Version des Buchs in unserem Kindle-Shop verkaufen. Weitere Informationen

Kunden diskutieren

Das Forum zu diesem Produkt

Diskussion	Antworten	J�ngster Beitrag
Noch keine Diskussionen

Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen

Neue Diskussion starten

Thema:

Erster Beitrag:

Bei neuen Eintr�gen E-Mail erhalten

Eingabe des Log-ins

Richtlinien

Aktive Diskussionen in �hnlichen Foren

Diskussion	Antworten	J�ngster Beitrag
Forum: englische b�cher Suche engl. B�cher mit denen ich die Sprache besser erlerne	8	Vor 4 Stunden
Forum: englische b�cher Aktuell kostenlose Kindle-B�cher in franz�sisch	10	Vor 5 Stunden
Forum: englische b�cher Welches englische Buch lest Ihr zur Zeit?	237	Vor 5 Stunden
Forum: englische b�cher Meet Our Authors	116	Vor 10 Stunden
Forum: englische b�cher We can get a book for free? Great! Please post here!	43	Vor 18 Stunden
Forum: englische b�cher Utopia/Dystopia	10	Vor 2 Tagen
Forum: englische b�cher it. girl band 6	1	Vor 4 Tagen
Forum: englische b�cher American Based Thriller Writers Please Post	117	Vor 5 Tagen

Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen

�hnliche Foren

Forum: englische b�cher (530 Diskussionen)

Legen Sie Ihre eigene Lieblingsliste an

Kundenrezensionen

5 Sterne

4 Sterne

3 Sterne

2 Sterne

1 Sterne

8 Rezensionen

4.6 von 5 Sternen

Kundenrezension verfassen

Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen

See below 7. Oktober 1999

Von Ein Kunde

Format:Taschenbuch

About a month ago, I wrote a reader's comment on Richard Lieberman's "Steinway and Sons," carefully following your guidelines. To date, that piece has not been posted; nor have I received any message explaining that it would not be posted. Please advise. Sincerely, Brian Gallagher (gallb@aol.com)

Kommentar |

War diese Rezension f�r Sie hilfreich?

Nein

An engaging and insightful book! 12. August 1999

Format:Gebundene Ausgabe

Mr. Lieberman provides a captivating glimpse into one of America's oldest family run businesses. Based upon meticulous research, the reader is introduced to a family that essentially defined our cultural heritage. From the family patriarch's pre-civil war immigration to the present, we watch as this family courses its way through America's turbulent past. No only does this book expose the electic (and even dysfunctional) mix of characters so common in family owned businesses, but it also provides an intimate perspective of how this business survived the challenges of the civil war, industrialization, World Wars I & II, the depression, unionization, and finally, the global economy. Along the way, the reader learns how these defining historical events also created significant shifts in American ideals and culture. For those of you who enjoy "hands-on history," you'll find this book truly rewarding!

Steinwway & Sons is a superb family and social history. 28. M�rz 1999

Steinway & Sons is a rich, absorbing history of a business dynasty that stayed vital over six generations. Lieberman astutely analyzes the twin forces of creativity and hard-nosed business sense that made and sustained Steinway's preeminence as the concert piano of choice. This richly anecdotal book does not shy away from the dark side of the family's history-- its contempt for the piano workers, its unthinking patriarchy, even its active cultivation of the Nazis in Germany during World War II. (In America Steinway emphasized its patriotism by draping its conert hall with American flags and publicizing the Steinway sons who were serving in the American armed forces.) In this balanced account, Lieberman takes pains to catalogue the family's numerous contributions to the conert piano's evolution, as well as its unceasing promotion of the finest artists. The Steinways' mixture of creative technical innovation, fine musical taste and ruthless business practices makes them a family of particular fascination. Lieberman brings the various figures, strong and weak and flawed, to vibrant life.