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Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano - Hardcover

Pollens, Stewart

 
9781107096578: Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 110709657X ISBN 13: 9781107096578
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker and contemporary of Antonio Stradivari, who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence. Through thorough analysis of documents preserved in the State Archive of Florence, Pollens has reconstructed, in unprecedented technical detail, Cristofori's working life between his arrival in Florence in 1688 and his death in 1732. This book will be of interest to pianists, historians of the piano, musicologists, museum curators and conservators, as well as keyboard instrument makers, restorers, and tuners.

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About the Author

Trained as a violin and keyboard instrument maker, Stewart Pollens served as the conservator of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York between 1976 and 2006, and is the Director of the firm Violin Advisor, LLC. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and award-winning publications on musical instrument history including The Early Pianoforte (Cambridge, 1995), Stradivari (Cambridge, 2010) and the The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation (Cambridge, 2015).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
110709657X
ISBN 13 
9781107096578
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400