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Inventor, instrument maker. Known for. Inventor of the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco ( Italian pronunciation: [bartoloˈmɛːo kriˈstɔːfori di franˈtʃesko]; May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano .
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- Inventor of the piano
Feb 26, 2024 · Bartolomeo Cristofori (born May 4, 1655, Padua, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died January 27, 1732, Florence) was an Italian harpsichord maker generally credited with the invention of the piano, called in his time gravicembalo col piano e forte, or “harpsichord that plays soft and loud.”
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The first true piano was invented almost entirely by one man—Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, who had been appointed in 1688 to the Florentine court of Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici to care for its harpsichords and eventually for its entire collection of musical instruments.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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Bartolomeo Cristofori. Cristofori was born in Padua in the Republic of Venice. At age 33, he was recruited to work for Prince Ferdinando. Ferdinando, the son and heir of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, loved music. There is only speculation as to what led Ferdinando to recruit Cristofori.
Sep 7, 2022 · Dobney: One of the great treasures of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is this piano built in 1720 in Florence by a man named Bartolemeo Cristofori, who was the inventor of what we now know of as the piano. And this very special piece at The Met is the earliest surviving piano from his workshop.
Bartolomeo Cristofori, the maker of this piano, did not set out to invent a new kind of instrument. He wanted to create a harpsichord (another type of keyboard instrument) that could play notes at all volumes, from very soft to very loud, simply through the touch of a finger—something harpsichords can't do.