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I learned so much from this and it reinforces my love of the instrument. Mozart's sonatas just don't sound right without it.

Michael Haydn is known for his top class pastoral compositions which are worth listening. He lacks the diversity of his more famous elder brother Joseph. His Serenades, Divertimentos and Concertos are worth listening. Titus

According to Wikipedia, no one knows which exact tuning Bach meant by “well-tempered”. But you present your ideas here as if they are non-controversial. Can you provide a source for your claim? And what about all the historians that have made contrary claims?

Exquisite - looking forward to July 4 at Ventfort Hall!

It sounds exactly as someone would expect: an intermediate between the harpsichord and modern piano. And it's my favorite sound ever!!

Alma was a violinist in Vienna, a niece of composer Gustav Mahler, she formed in Vienna all women orchestra with which she performed Viennese music all over the world. Her father was a leader of Vienna Philharmonic. Her husband was a Czech violinist. May her soul rest in peace.

Why are you calling her a victim? There's no evidence that Leopold forced her to remain in Salzburg. Maybe she didn't want to travel around the world like other female musicians of her era. Stop blaming her father and society, it's ridiculous. Life was a lot harder for her brother. In fact, he died very young.

Thank you for this detailed information and lovely demonstrations!

My high school violin student and I just watched this and we learned a lot. C minor and F-sharp minor were really intense lol

Thanks for the video! I did not know the Kirnberger tuning so well, but it has similarities with the Valotti tuning which usese 6 pure fifths. I think you are so right when you say that the equal temperament takes away a lot of the essence of what the composer meant when he/she wrote the piece. Equal temperament is like democracy: everyone can live with it but nobody is really happy!

Amazing video

Fantastic! A brilliant performance and so beautifully filmed. Can't wait for your Chamber On The Mountain performance in Ojai on June 16th!!

Your video is fascinating! We are so excited for your June 16th performance for Chamber On The Mountain!

Thank you for explaining this so simply.

Wonderful playing

I saw you at Rosemount and I was hooked! Thanks for playing for us

Thank you so much for having this woman who’s a genius and such a pleasure to listen too as well. my son brought this video to my attention because he knew how fascinating I would find it! I introduced all of my children to classical music in the womb (via all the Baby Eisenstein videos back in the late 1990’s and take great pleasure in the fact that all three have continued into adulthood to sponsor the arts, as do I of course). I’ve got to find this book she mentions in the beginning…. I hope someone does the DNA testing! I didn’t realize they sell gravesites?? I mean gravesites that have people in them? Is this a common practice? I’ve never heard of this in America.

This was very well done. The speed at which you spoke was listener-friendly, and your demonstrations made me want to play the fortepiano!

Theſe ſound ſo much better than modern pianos. Doth any company ſtill make them ?

Excelent video, love it!❤ Well explained with a lots of informations👍

0:41 isn't the moderator similar to the sordina (middle pedal) in an upright piano? they serve different needs but are basically the same thing

IMO, it's not impossible to create the same effect on the modern piano. Like many pianists, I also use the so-called "harmonic pedaling", which is full pedal combined with half pedal in a sort of flutter- pedal is never permanent, yet strings still resonate; you accelerate the decay. I didn't play the Waldstein, but I did play the Appassionata, it has similar pedaling indications. Well, now from objective reasons I had to switch on a digital, but it's a digital where half pedaling also works (I guess it's simulated, but it's one of the reasons I bought it). Even Liszt's Consolations, much later written, have similar pedal indications, and pianos at that time were pretty modern, so certainly this is what he meant too. I heard a lot of discussion recently on harmonic pedaling; I was not taught about, just using it instinctively after I listened some great pianists (Richter, Berman, Gilels, Horowitz, Rachmaninov) and tried to figure out how do they get certain sounds. Yes, there is something romantic (! 🙂) in playing classical music on a fortepiano, but a modern piano has a better pianissimo when playing it with mastery, some get it to sound at the limits of the perception (like Lipatti or even Yuja Wang), so intimate sound is not a big problem. I think if Mozart or Beethoven would have had a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, they would have just loved it and play on it. Beethoven was absolutely in awe when he received a new Erard, which was almost like a modern piano as sound and possibilities; that was the sound he had in his head when he wrote (almost completely deaf) the last 3 sonatas 🙂

Hopefully, the memorials to Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms are not too close to each other. On a serious note though, I’m reading a biography of Schubert which states that the actual remains of both Beethoven and Schubert are as of 1888 in the Musicians Grove of Honor in Vienna. Is this accurate?

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🤌💀Brilliant!! 🎹

Nice video. I saw somewhere that some Fortepianos had a 3rd Knee Lever. From what I recall, it put a metal sheet with thin felt on one side that could be put down on the strings when actuated. This gave the notes a buzzing "distorted" sound. So even back then, the masters liked distortion as much as today's heavy metal musicians. I can see it now... Mozart in a Guitar Center picking out a distortion pedal for his synthesizer gig with Metallica, with Beethoven in the back room cranking an amp up to max to hear the music, and Chopin in the corner just shaking his head in disgust [smile]. Can you elaborate on that Knee Pedal, what was it called, how did it work, how did it sound?

Which Kirnberger is this?

iz not easy it is not fair

Why not ask a member of the audience to hit that bass note for you? That's what I'd do. Call it an interactive performance.

Dr Haydn !!

This is why Mozart's music gets a whole mess on a Steinway modern piano. And Ravel's or Debussy's never could be played on the fortepiano. Period.

You did a great job of describing the Fp. Thanks!

I don't think I can listen to Mozart again now unless it's played on a fortepiano.

Can an untrained ear hear the difference between the SAME piece played in the different keys? Playing a 'happy' piece in one tuning and a 'sad' piece in another tuning doesn't demonstrate--at least to me--the difference in tunings. I've been aware of this issue for a long time but have never heard an actual demonstration of the difference despite being able to say, truthfully, "Ich war in Wien geboren."

And to this very day, D minor is the saddest key.

Daniel, in university my piano teacher had a wonderful collection of harpsichords and what she called "pianofortes". Is there a different between pianoforte and fortepiano?

Wonderful!

Bravo! Beautiful playing of what sounds like a very difficult piece. Perfection!

I think modern pianos have a more powerful sound

My piano is tuned in Werkmeister III - I love period music played in this temperament!

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I had to play an organ recital whilst my younger sister was hospitalised. I know how you feel sir, and my thoughts and prayers are with you. God bless you and your family, and whatever the future may bring, both the people around you and all of us in your social media shall be here to support you. I admire your courage.

Welcome back. Nice to see you posting again! Sorry to hear of your sister's condition. I can't imagine what it is like to have to ensure 'the show must go on' !

Nicely explained and good examples. You could go even further forward to Chopin for examples in F♯ minor. The Beethoven excerpt was mostly open octaves and melodic intervals (quite deliberate of course).

Picking which instrumentnto inspire my son for our homeschool musoc this year. I hope to inspire a love of classical. Any advice helpful. The oiano is a classical instrument. I disnt know that hearing all the modern uses

The more I think about it, the Mozarts were the original Jacksons

Dear sir, I'd like you to congratulate you for this presentation. Thanks!

Thank you for performing at the Washington County Historical Society in Hagerstown, MD. Thoroughly enjoyed the evening of beautiful music!

8:18 only 20% of the people were married during Mozart’s time!? That’s shocking!

Daniel, I thoroughly enjoyed your video and found it interesting and well presented. I loved learning about this instrument and agree with your comment that it helps classical music be presented in a new and exciting way. Lisa from Turner's Keyboards