New Beethoven recording on a unique instrument
The CD recording Beethoven 1802 with Keiko Shichijo on fortepiano was released in September 2019 by ETCETERA Records. This is a unique opportunity to listen to an original Frère et Soeur Stein d’Augsbourg à Vienne instrument.
Chopin in letters by Friederike
On this 27th of September I would like to bring to your attention a recent publication by Uta Goebl-Streicher
Quick Link to Articles
The Stein 1802 Project research articles have been posted on this site since 2015. They are available for download. You will find the links here.
English translation available
The Development of a six octave fortepiano in Vienna around 1801. English translation of an article which was originally published in Netherlands EPTA Piano Bulletin, 2016.
A six octave Frère et Soeur Stein in Vienna around 1801?
The latest edition of the Piano Bulletin published by EPTA Netherlands features an article on the development of a six octave fortepiano in Vienna around 1801.
The Impossible Note (II): a theoretical explanation
In our June 2015 article we examined the first edition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonata n. 14 by the Viennese publisher Johann Cappi. Part II of the Impossible Note is a partial musical analysis of the Sonata’s first movement, the Adagio Sostenuto. It aims to provide a solution for the reading D# in bars 11 and 20. >> READ MORE
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The fortepiano at the Young Pianists Festival Amsterdam
The Young Pianists Festival features a varied program dedicated to the fortepiano, Friday November 20 at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw.
Forte/Piano Festival: Beethoven Reunion Concert
A REVIEW by TILMAN SKOWRONECK
Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies’ Forte/Piano—A Festival Celebrating Pianos in History was held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, on August 5—9, 2015. A major event of the festival was the two-part Reunion Concert on Saturday, August 8, featuring the “Cornell seven”: the seven pianists who, in 1994, became the first to perform the complete Beethoven piano sonatas live on period pianos.
Westfield Forte/Piano to present a fascinating Beethoven program
FORTE/PIANO, a festival celebrating Pianos in History, kicks off today, August 5, 2015. The five-day event takes place at the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
The impossible note in Beethoven’s opus 27 no.2
Through a strange concurrence of circumstances, the notes of Beethoven’s Sonata number fourteen have come to haunt us again. An article by Birgitta Arts and Sietse Kok. >>READ MORE
Music and the brain: revisiting J.F. Gall’s theories
SUBMITTED by PAUL ELING
Dr. Paul Eling is Associate Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen – Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour in the Netherlands. >>READ MORE
From Beethoven to Brahms: a masterclass
IN CONVERSATION WITH TOBIAS KOCH
Tobias Koch is a versatile specialist of the pianoforte and other keyboard instruments. He teaches at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. In his continuous exploration of sound, he is firmly rooted in the present, and with a forward view he tries to understand what has been done in the past.
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