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Dec
22
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petr b
What – in musicology / history – was the full range of the pianos for which Mozart was composing? Has anyone scanned all Mozart piano literature for the actual highest and lowest pitch he wrote for the piano?
What – in musicology / history – was the full range of the pianos for which Mozart was composing? Has anyone scanned all Mozart piano literature for the actual highest and lowest pitch he wrote for the piano?
Answers or source references are welcome.
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Homemade Solar Panels on 25 December, 2009 at 4:56 am #
Pianos of Mozart’s time typically had 60 or 61 keys. Mozart composed for these during his return to Vienna where the piano was the new musical rage (displacing the harpsichord.) The piano as we know it today was developed after Mozart’s death in 1791.