The eighteenth-century fortepiano grand and its patrons : from Scarlatti to Beethoven /
In the late 17th century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument for 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 fortep...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Giving Cristofori's nuovo cimbalo a name: terminology problems throughout the eighteenth century
- Domenico Scarlatti
- New inventions in Germany, pantalone instruments, and Gottfried Silbermann
- Johann Sebastian Bach and the "piano et forte"
- Pianoforte builders in Germany around 1750
- The generation of Bach's older sons
- From Alberti, Platti, and Rutini to Eckard and the younger sons of Bach
- Developments in the second half of the century: Johann Andreas Stein and Sebastien Erard
- Joseph Haydn-Wenzel and Johann Schantz, young Mozart and Nannette Stein
- Anton Walter and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- From Broadwood, Merlin, and Clementi to Beethoven
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Scipione Maffei's article of 1711.