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Ebook: The eighteenth-century fortepiano grand and its patrons from Scarlatti to Beethoven
Author: Badura-Skoda Eva
- Genre: Art // Music
- Tags: Music, Piano -- 18e siècle, Piano -- History -- 18th century, Piano -- Histoire -- 18e siècle, Piano
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- City: Bloomington
- Language: English
- epub
"In the late 17th century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the Read more...