The History of the Pianoforte [videorecording]
Subtitle: famous or noteworthy instruments played by great artists : a documentation in sound
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Format: DVD
ISBN-13: 9780253012012
Notes: Title from opening screen credits.
Featuring pianists Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson, Jörg Demus, Gerlinde Otto, Hans Kann, and Rudolf Scholz ; narrator, Eva Badura-Skoda.
"A documentary in sound" - container.
Sheet listing instruments, repertoire, and performers featured in the documentary (2 unnumbered pages) inserted in container.
Originally released on VHS in 1999.
Table of contents: title: The oldest extant piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1720); title: A compound harpsichord-piano by Giovanni Ferrini (1746); title: A square piano by Johann Socher (1742); title: A normal-sized dulcimer (date not given); title: A reconstruction of a pantaleon (date not given); title: Second example played on the pantaleon; title: Pianoforte by Johann Heinrich Silbermann (date not given); title: Pianoforte by Gottfried Silbermann (1746); title: Fortepiano by Johann Andreas Stein (ca. 1784); title: Fortepiano of Johann Schantz (ca. 1790); title: Fortepiano by Anton Walter (ca. 1800); title: Demonstration of three grand pianos from the decade 1790-1800 by Johann Schantz, Anton Walter, and John Broadwood; title: Demonstration of the development of the device to lift dampers, presented by Paul Badura-Skoda on pianos made by Stirnemann (1781), Johann Schantz, and John Broadwood (1795); title: Paul Badura-Skoda demonstrates the function of six typically Viennese piano pedals on a piano made by George Hasska (ca. 1818); title: Paul Badura-Skoda demonstrates the pedals of a grand piano by Conrad Graf (ca. 1825) and the split pedal of a Broadwood grand piano (1817); title: Comparisons of pianos by Johann Schantz and Anton Walter (no date given); title: Both pianists play an excerpt from Mozart's Sonata for two pianos K.448 on the same instruments (no date given); title: Comparison of pianos by Broadwood (1817) and Conrad Graf (1822/23); title: The two pianists, alternating, play from Beethoven's Sonata op. 31/2 (no date given); title: Beethoven's own piano, made by Conrad Graf (1822/23) with four strings per tone; title: Concert grand by Conrad Graf (ca. 1825); title: A concert grand piano by Michael Schweighofer (ca. 1846); title: A grand piano on which Chopin played often, made by Erard (ca. 1835); title: A concert grand piano by Broadwood (1845); title: Grand piano by Ludwig Bösendorfer (1870); title: Grand piano by Steinway and Sons (ca. 1870); title: Electric pianos : The Welte-Vorsatz piano (ca. 1910) and the Ampico mechanism built into a Bösendorfer piano (ca. 1930); title: A Bösendorfer "Imperial" concert grand piano (ca. 1920); title: Comparison with a grand piano with aliquot strings by Blüthner (date not given); title: Various modern concert grand pianos by Bösendorfer, Bechstein, Steinway, and other builders (date not given); title: Demonstration of the Bösendorfer "Imperial" grand computer piano (date not given)