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... piano music is falsified by our unfamiliarity with the piano of his time . Mozart himself once said he preferred the pianos made by Stein of Augsburg , and one or two instruments by this maker and his contemporaries are still in ...
... piano music is falsified by our unfamiliarity with the piano of his time . Mozart himself once said he preferred the pianos made by Stein of Augsburg , and one or two instruments by this maker and his contemporaries are still in ...
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... PIANO The tone - colour of a late eighteenth - century harpsichord was not very different from that of a contemporary fortepiano , but the tone - colours of their modern descendants are very unlike one another . A Viennese fortepiano ...
... PIANO The tone - colour of a late eighteenth - century harpsichord was not very different from that of a contemporary fortepiano , but the tone - colours of their modern descendants are very unlike one another . A Viennese fortepiano ...
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... piano . Similarly the evidence of the titles of Mozart's early sonatas and concertos , as well as of their texture and the places in which they were first performed , often betrays the fact that they were written for the harpsichord ...
... piano . Similarly the evidence of the titles of Mozart's early sonatas and concertos , as well as of their texture and the places in which they were first performed , often betrays the fact that they were written for the harpsichord ...
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