The first notes ever written for the modern piano
In short: Experience a rare musical moment: a performance on the world's earliest surviving piano. This video captures the precise sound of the instrument that changed music history forever.
Lodovico Giustini's (1685-1743) B flat major sonata number 6 Preludio is included in this recital. This piece is significant as part of the first known works composed specifically for the piano, published in 1732.
The instrument itself is a masterpiece of engineering, crafted in Florence in 1720 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731), the inventor of the piano.
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