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1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 min. 55 sec.) ; 302588789 bytes |
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Back to Florence, this time to look at the emergence of an instrument which quickly became the most popular, versatile, prevalent instrument the world has ever seen: the piano. But unlike the gradual way in which most other instruments came into being, one man in particular can be credited with giving us the piano as we know it today, with catapulting it forward from the also-rans: Bartolomeo Cristofori.**Please note that this program/series has been created from masters kindly provided by DECS Tape Services in South Australia. These recordings have been collected over a period dating back to the early 1990s and as such, the picture quality may be of variable standard |
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Broadcast 1999-12-29 at 00:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: NC |
| Subject |
Cristofori, Bartolomeo, 1655-1732.
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Celebrities -- Conduct of life.
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Musical instruments.
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Piano music.
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Streaming video
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Marengo, Alex, director
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Goodall, Howard, host
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