Ruth Leon recommends… Cristofori Piano: Sonata K.9 by Domenico Scarlatti

日本語要約

17世紀末（おそらく1698年）にピアノを発明したバルトロメオ・クリストフォリは、雇用主フェルディナンド・デ・メディチ大公のもとで楽器の製作や修復・管理を行っていた。現存最古とされる1720年製のクリストフォリ・ピアノを用い、ドンソク・シンがドメニコ・スカルラッティの「ソナタ ニ短調 K.9」を演奏している。

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We know very little about Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731), but what we do know is that it was he who invented the piano, some where around the end of the 17th century, probably in 1698. Cristofori had invented two keyboard instruments before he began his work on the piano. These instruments are documented in an inventory, dated 1700, of the many instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici, Cristofori’s employer. The Prince at the time was amassing a large collection of instruments, both contemporary and (from the viewpoint of his time) historical; and Cristofori assisted in the development of this collection. Cristofori also built instruments of existing types, documented in the same 1700 inventory: a clavicytherium (upright harpsichord), and two harpsichords of the standard Ital

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