Meaning of pianomania | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A great popularity of piano music in a population.
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2. A strong interest in pianos and piano music (in an individual)
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Examples

“Pianomania had struck the nation - all classes, both sexes.”

“The popularity of the drawing room ballad was due, in part, to a "pianomania" resulting from the introduction of the upright piano around 1827.”

“The high point of pianomania fell in the period when the choirboys' style set the pace for Jewish-American music and when Jewish sheet music began to proliferate.”

“The London branch was closed down, and the firm's output failed to expand, despite the pianomania which had by then spread to every region of the globe.”

“Students of that curious disease, pianomania, which fills St James's Hall with young ladies every afternoon during the season, and puts countless sums into the pockets of teaching virtuosos, will find such a treat in Bettina Walker's My Musical Experiences, just published by Bentley, as they have not enjoyed since Miss Fay's Music Study in Germany.”

“A living legend among musicians, "a genius with pianomania," one of the great viruosi of the Soviet Union swept into the capital of Finland last week on the Moscow-Helsinki Express and took the city by storm.”

“For the IMF's support of musical amateurism fed into an existing channel of casual music-making in the Jewish immigrant home: "pianomania."”

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