A fortepiano [ˌfɔrteˈpjaːno] is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument...

In the nineteenth century, influenced by Romantic music trends, the fortepiano underwent changes such as the use of a cast iron frame (which allowed...

The expression fortepiano (sometimes called forte piano) is a sudden dynamic change used in a musical score, usually with the abbreviation fp, to designate...

action" c. 1788 Square piano C. Oehler Stuttgart, 1870s Music portal Fortepiano Clavichord, a similar structured keyboard. Finchcocks, a collection of...

Ithaca, New York Bilson is one of the foremost players and teachers of the fortepiano; this is the ancestor of the modern piano and was the instrument used...

harpsichord, fortepiano, organ (1999–2012, 12 CDs Stradivarius) – in progress Keyboard Sonatas, Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord & fortepiano (2012, 36 CDs...

harpsichord was replaced as the main keyboard instrument by the piano (or fortepiano). Unlike the harpsichord, which plucks strings with quills, pianos strike...

Graf fortepiano (1839). Natalia Rehling. Frédéric Chopin. Sonata No. 2, Preludes op. 28. Label: paladino music. Played on Conrad Graf fortepiano (after...

December 2016. On 21 December 2017 Soloviy released her next single "Fortepiano". Soloviy released single "Shkidlyva Zvychka" on 10 October 2018. Following...

number of new instruments (e.g., the oboe, bassoon, cello, contrabass and fortepiano). Some instruments from previous eras fell into disuse, such as the shawm...

years with fortepianos made by Regensburg builder Franz Jakob Späth. Later when Mozart was visiting Augsburg, he was impressed by Stein fortepianos and shared...

Chris Maene Fortepiano Anton Walter (1795); The Min-On Music Museum in Tokyo Fortepiano by Anton Walter (1792) replica by Paul McNulty Fortepiano by Anton...

Jos Van Immerseel (fortepiano by Conrad Graf, 1826). Ernst Simon Glaser (unspecified cello, possibly modern) and Liv Glaser (fortepiano by Alois Graff, 1825)...

and the fortepiano, were the results of attempts to remedy the lack of dynamics in harpsichord sound. Both the tangent piano and fortepiano offered a...

theme. Bach obliged, playing a three-part fugue on one of Frederick's fortepianos by Gottfried Silbermann, which was a new type of instrument at the time...

fortepiano and early music teaching from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Since 2001 she has lived in the Czech Republic, married to fortepiano builder...

composition was published, a sonata for keyboard (harpsichord or possibly fortepiano), which is lost. Three years later, Wilms was one of the six founders...

some that are on fortepiano. Naruhiko Kawaguchi (fortepiano by Chris Maene after Conrad Graf, 1817) Viviana Sofronitsky (fortepiano by Paul McNulty after...

Piano Concerto in G major No. 17 by W. A. Mozart Fortepiano by Johann Andreas Stein (Augsburg, 1775) – Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum Key G major Catalogue...

while he has built many fortepianos in 18th-century style, he has also progressively sought to span the gap between the fortepiano (the cradle of modern...

builders. Around the year 1700 the first fortepiano was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori. The early fortepiano uses percussion, the strings being struck...

Berlin). Frederick is depicted playing the flute in his music room at Sanssouci as C. P. E. Bach accompanies him on a fortepiano by Gottfried Silbermann....

studied with Alexei Lubimov (piano), Olga Martynova (harpsichord and fortepiano), and Alexei Shmitov (organ) and graduated in 2010. In 2011 she began...

at the University of Tasmania. In 1984, he moved to Amsterdam to study fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1996...

"Beethoven's Erard Piano: Its Influence on His Compositions and on Viennese Fortepiano Building". Early Music. 30 (4). Oxford: Oxford University Press: 522–538...

in Wien" fortepiano used by the composer is now on display in the Haydn-Haus Eisenstadt. In Vienna in 1788 Haydn bought himself a fortepiano made by Wenzel...

enchanted eye, ear, and soul. – Mozart conducted the orchestra, playing his fortepiano; but the joy which this music causes is so far removed from all sensuality...

Piano Concerto in C major No. 25 by W. A. Mozart Fortepiano by Johann Andreas Stein (Augsburg, 1775) – Berlin Musical Instrument Museum Key C major Catalogue...

be almost voicelike and singable. New genres were developed, and the fortepiano, the forerunner to the modern piano, replaced the Baroque era harpsichord...

the piano was only somewhat more robust than in Cristofori's time; see fortepiano. It was during the period from about 1790 to 1870 that most of the important...