Fortepianos and their Music

The pianoforte became increasingly popular during the last third of the eighteenth century. By then, two fundamentally different types of mechanical construction had developed: the German/Viennese and the English, and these different characteristics were reflected in the keyboard music of the time. This book explores the relationship between instruments, composers, and performers at the time of Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, and the young Beethoven.