TY - BOOK ID - 85473082 TI - Bartolomeo Cristofori and the invention of the piano PY - 2017 SN - 1108162142 1108162304 1108162460 1108163262 131615629X 110709657X 110748023X 9781108163262 9781316156292 1108163106 9781108163101 9781107096578 9781107480230 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Musical instrument makers KW - Piano KW - Concert grand (Piano) KW - Fortepiano KW - Grand piano KW - Pianoforte KW - Spinet (Piano) KW - Spinnet (Piano) KW - Upright piano KW - Keyboard instruments KW - Toy piano KW - Instrument makers (Music) KW - Musical instrument manufacturers KW - Musical instruments KW - Artisans KW - History KW - Makers KW - Cristofori, Bartolomeo, KW - Cristofori, Bartolommeo, KW - Di Francesco, Bartolomeo Cristofiori, KW - Francesco, Bartolomeo Cristofiori di, KW - Piano. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473082 AB - This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker and contemporary of Antonio Stradivari, who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence. Through thorough analysis of documents preserved in the State Archive of Florence, Pollens has reconstructed, in unprecedented technical detail, Cristofori's working life between his arrival in Florence in 1688 and his death in 1732. This book will be of interest to pianists, historians of the piano, musicologists, museum curators and conservators, as well as keyboard instrument makers, restorers, and tuners. ER -