A brief history of the pianoforte - Leeds International Piano Competition 2012

[@bonifaz3095]

Drum and bell inside the pianoforte! Awesome! Now that (drum, not the bell) is what I love about my guitar.

[@Lianpe98]

I love her voice

[@Chin-mx5bk]

Julian Felipe Granados Flórez me too :)

[@twamley]

I have only just come across this video, very informative. I did not know about the John Broadwood piano and its association with Beethoven, what an amazing story! Everyone knows of his deafness, but I did not know that he must have got some wonderful pleasure from this John Broadwood grand piano, its such an uplifting story.

[@horationelson57]

Delightfully informative, short piece. Thank you for sharing

[@kylewhitehead1684]

Why does the harpsichord always get lumped into the history of the piano? People talk about it like it's ground zero and every keyboard instrument after it is an improvement. That's just not true. The harpsichord is it's own instrument and (something not mentioned here) can do things the piano can't. There's a reason so much of Bach, Rameau and Scarlatti sounds frankly muddy and horribly dull on the piano. The harpsichord is a sharp attack, whereas the piano is a hammer blow and in un-speciaized hands intricate counterpoint tends to blend and lose clarity. The two instruments can't really be compared. The clavichord is a much closer relation to the piano than the harpsichord so if you're going to go into te baroque period in a video concerning the piano surely that should have been the instrument.

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

I agree. This vid was pure propaganda for modern big-ass black-monster pianos. I often find that modern piano players like to marginalize and bash early music and instruments. They act so superior and snobby while at the same time having little knowledge on early instruments and historically accurate performance.

[@smoak2024]

Right, because all the big orchestras had a clavichord player holding the basso continuo down back in the baroque days, lmao... The pianoforte, and therefore the piano, was CLEARLY the successor to harpsichord, and that is clearly evidenced by the areas in which it outrighted replaced harpsichords - whereas the clavichord was nothing more than a bedroom instrument with a notoriously challenging bit of fingerwork and repertoire that is largely forgotten today - there was no expansion of the clavichords use until the '60s when Hohner decided to throw a pickup in one and the rest is funk history.

[@coloraturaMusic]

I agree. Baroque is definetly something else when played with the right instruments !! Now singing Purcell or Back with a piano sounds very off to me.

[@ritschardt]

I just had a play on my copy of a Viennese piano by Anton Walter and it is LOUD and you can thump it somewhat, the Broadwood was a gift from the company given to Beethoven for commercial reasons which they then continued to exploit and maybe still do. His Erard which he actually paid for was his first English action instrument ; he had the instrument modified to make it feel more Viennese. The Graf was a loan instrument from the firm whilst they had taken the Broadwood away to study .Ms Klein could do well to search the old Yahoo fortepiano list Archives there was much discussion on Beethovens pianos and much controversy uncovered.

[@NicolasEjzenberg]

No piano history would be complete without mentioning Erard and Pleyel pianos of the XIX century...

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

and certainly not complete without mentioning bartolomeo christoffori, walter, Stein, Zumpe, clavichords, tangent pianos etc.

[@nirmaypatel3717]

LMFAOOO SUBSTITLES AROUND 1:29 I'm deaddddddd

[@suisid4202]

3:05: Where Can I Get 1 Of Those Pianos?

[@Folboi]

Its a prototype so none

[@armpiano]

Nonsense ! Please, do some research before ascertaining some clumsy and untruthful facts. Such as "it is on this piano that Beethoven wrote some explosive and percussive music". Beethoven affirmed his explosive style starting from his op. 1 on and his deafness has nothing to do with that. And the pianos did not get louder and heavier because of Beethoven's deafness. I was expecting some more accurate informations from a channel such as the BBC

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

accurate information from a channel such as BBC? hahahahahaahahahah BBC is notorious for spreading fake-news. .... and covering up and protecting child rapists.

[@stevenmarry6845]

Ferrrrrrrrrahri......

[@marvinsilverman4394]

this little documentary is a joke????

[@TiggerTron]

What is the song she plays at 2:34?

[@nietjonah7328]

Ayman Izzaz Mozart piano sonata no16 in c if im correct

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

It's not a song. it's either a work, a piece or a composition. Songs have lyrics and are sung. hence the word song.

[@HiHello-rs1ey]

Gretchen Thunberg MENDELSSOHN SONGS WITHOUT WORDS

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

SO much BS and misinformation in this vid. You jump from harpsichord (which is not even related to the fortepiano) right to pianos from the 1820s Totally ignoring the position of the clavichord, the tangent piano, and all the varieties of fortepianos and square pianos. And what you claimed about Beethoven is demonstrably incorrect. Lots of fake-news. But I didnt expect something else from a company like BBC

[@coelho.0]

uwe

[@akutu9911]

3:06

[@zohal_9]

❤ 3:58

[@enricomariapolimanti9111]

It’s a pity, she says several silly things