Key Mood: D Major and B Minor

D Major is a warm Key, joyous and boisterous without being edgy or overbearing. 

Brahms wrote a symphony in D Major that is one of the sunniest of all symphonies. 

Vivaldi wrote his famous piece Spring from the Four Seasons in this Key, and Handel chose it for his famous Hallelujah Chorus in the Messiah. 

B Minor is the relative Minor of D Major because it shares the same Key signature. In my …

Chopin Berceuse Op. 57 Autograph Manuscript

The articulations in Schubert Sonata D960

Articulations can actually help us understand the phrase’s form that the author had in mind. 

In the first eight bars of the first movement of Schubert's Sonata D960, the author indicates many things through the slurs.  

For example, it is evident that the first part of the initial phrase arrives at bar two, at D, where there is a dissonance in the left hand which creates a resonance with the right hand.  …

"Art Case" Fazioli Pianos

Any aesthetic variation to the Fazioli piano applys to the shape, the surface and the decoration of the instrument, according to the client’s specific request or original project.  Any modification of the casework does not compromise in any way the acoustic characteristics of the instrument.


Origami 

Commissioned by the owners of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, the “Origami” piano was originally designed by a team of renowned architects (McFarlane / …

Classical Composers’ Favorite Keys

Classical composers’ key data are displayed as a heat map with the shape of a piano keyboard.

The top half of each note represents percentage of minor compositions in that key, and the bottom half of each note corresponds to major compositions in that key.

The highest percentage for each composer is labeled.  Each composer’s heat map is scaled the same (0 to 20%), so you can compare one composer to another. 

The …