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    Gottfried Silbermann (January 14, 1683 – August 4, 1753) was a German builder of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and...
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    (born 1982), co-founder of Pinterest Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), German builder of pipe organs Andreas Silbermann (1678–1734), German builder of pipe...
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    widely published. It was Gottfried Silbermann who brought the construction of fortepianos to the German-speaking nations. Silbermann, who worked in Freiberg...
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    centre in view of the entire congregation. In 1736, famed organ maker Gottfried Silbermann built a three-manual, 43-stop instrument for the church. The organ...
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  • owned several of the experimental instruments being developed by Gottfried Silbermann. During his anticipated visit to Frederick's palace in Potsdam, Bach...
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  • was organist in Greiz for 50 years and a friend of organ-builder Gottfried Silbermann. Partial cantata cycles for 1737, 1742, and 1745 - mainly lost in...
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    cathedral containing two famous Gottfried Silbermann organs. There are two other organs made by Gottfried Silbermann in the town – one at the St. Peter's...
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    introduced by Gottfried Silbermann, who was the first German piano builder. Parakilas, however, does not specify whether Silbermann's damper stop was...
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    his performances instruments (clavichord and fortepiano) made by Gottfried Silbermann, at that time a well-known builder of keyboard instruments. In the...
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    "consolation": Gottfried Silbermann was asked for an expert opinion of the Altenburg organ. Despite his appreciation of the organ, Silbermann made various...
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    (pyramid piano) and the fortbien. He apprenticed under Gottfried Silbermann and Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost and from 1737, worked in Gera with his brother...
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  • Taglietti - 1st mvt. Adagio. Played by Tibor Pinter. Recorded on the Silbermann organ sample set (1722) Rotha, Germany Concerto in B flat major II. Allegro...
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    this article. One of these builders was Gottfried Silbermann, better known as an organ builder. Silbermann's pianos were virtually direct copies of Cristofori's...
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  • established the Silbermann family tradition of organ building, training his brother Gottfried and his son Johann Andreas in the profession. Silbermann was born...
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    great organ by Gottfried Silbermann with its three manuals, 44 organ stops and 2574 organ pipes. Opposite of it is another, smaller Silbermann organ, which...
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  • a C. B. Fisk organ modeled on the eighteenth-century organs of Gottfried Silbermann was commissioned by the University of Michigan School of Music and...
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  • master, apprenticed him to the famous organ builder Gottfried Silbermann, brother of Andreas Silbermann in Freiberg. In 1721, Hildebrandt finished his masterpiece...
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    playing a three-part fugue on one of Frederick's fortepianos by Gottfried Silbermann, which was a new type of instrument at the time. Upon his return...
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    Dresden and was built by celebrated organ builder Gottfried Silbermann between 1732 and 1736. Silbermann was so pleased with the sound of this new invention...
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    Germany. It contains a pipe organ built in 1731 to the designs of Gottfried Silbermann. The church was refurbished in 1742. The building consists of a long...
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    to the sustain pedal in effect was invented by the piano pioneer Gottfried Silbermann; it was operated by the player's hands rather than a pedal. A later...
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    same time). Between the years 1718 and 1720 famed pipe organ maker Gottfried Silbermann installed one of the only 50 organs he completed, known for their...
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  • Project Free download of BWV 578, recorded by James Kibbie on the 1755 Gottfried Silbermann/Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in the Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden...
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    organ-builder, as were his father Andreas Silbermann and his paternal uncle Gottfried Silbermann. Mozart met with Silbermann during his (Mozart's) stay in Strasbourg...
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    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....
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    decorator Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt (the elder). A 1746 fortepiano by Gottfried Silbermann which once belonged to Frederick the Great remains as a nostalgic...
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    1730 Gottfried Silbermann organ at the St.-Georgen-Kirche, Glauchau, Germany Free download of BWV 548 recorded by James Kibbie on the 1755 Gottfried Silbermann/Zacharias...
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    carefully restored organ, the last work of the renowned organ builder Gottfried Silbermann. It also contains a Rococo pulpit by Balthasar Permoser. In the crypts...
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    Frauenstein. The church of Nassau holds one of the last organs built by Gottfried Silbermann. http://www.nassau-im-erzgebirge.de 50°46′N 13°32′E / 50.767°N...
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  • merged into the town Glashütte. Its church features an organ by Gottfried Silbermann. Homepage Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reinhardtsgrimma...
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