Franz Peter Schubert is thought to have been born here in the “Rauchkuchl” on 31 January 1797, the 12th child of a teacher and his wife.
Of his 14 brothers and sisters, only four survived to adult age.
The house was called “Zum rothen Krebsen” and belonged to Himmelpfortgrund, a village suburb of Vienna with 86 houses and over 3.000 inhabitants.
In 1800, there were around 70 people living in this house, which …
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’ 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 …
Exactly what music transmits to us and how it does it remains somewhat mysterious, but certainly, as everyone experiences, it is something capable of transmitting or awakening a great variety of intense emotions.
The musical language is "asemantic" that is, unlike the common language, it does not refer to anything concretely definable. In common parlance the word "bread" means that object in an incontrovertible way, but listening to a Beethoven quartet …
In 2013, the piano manufacturer Pleyel et Cie ceased to manufacture pianos.
This unfortunate decision marked an end to one of the legacies of the Austrian born Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831), a musician whose career saw him study with Joseph Haydn, gain enormous popularity across Europe for his compositions and form a piano company who supplied instrument to Fredéric Chopin, Achille-Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky to name but a few.
Pleyel was a …