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In Reply to: MOZART: Original instruments ok, but NOT the pianoforte posted by John C. - Aussie on November 5, 2006 at 13:36:34:
I put on a record I hadn't heard before after reading your post - Beethoven's op. 110 sonata played by Jorg Demus - and what do I hear but a pianoforte! Not just any pianoforte, it turns out from the record jacket, but Beethoven's own last pianoforte, made by Konrad Graf of Vienna around 1823.The pianoforte is obviously a very different and far less flexible instrument than the modern piano. It isn't a favorite of mine either, but I think its limitations can contibute to real insights into Mozart and Beethoven, perhaps in part because the performer can't stray into an overblown and over-romantic style even if he wanted to. He can only produce the smaller sound Mozart and Beethoven heard (though I guess Beethoven wasn't hearing much by 1823).
Ronald Brautigam has made some good fortepiano records.
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- Re: MOZART: Original instruments ok, but NOT the pianoforte - rbolaw 19:15:58 11/05/06 (1)
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