The eighteenth-century fortepiano grand and its patrons : from Scarlatti to Beethoven /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Badura-Skoda, Eva (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1700-1799
Piano > History > 18th century.
MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Piano & Keyboard.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Percussion.
MUSIC > Reference.
Piano
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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