Piano Quiz: questions and answers
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1. Who invented the fortepiano?
Bartolomeo Cristofori
2. When was the fortepiano invented?
1700
3. What was the range of the fortepiano?
Four octaves
4. Where does the first reliable record of a piano appear?
Inventory of the Medici family
5. What was the first music written for fortepiano?
Sonate da cimbalo di piano by Lodovico Giustini
6. In which journal did Scipione Maffei publish an article describing the mechanism of the fortepiano?
Gionale de'letterati d'Italia
7. Who introduced the construction of fortepianos to the German-speaking nations?
Gottfried Silbermann
8. Who built Mozart's fortepiano?
Anton Walter
9. What is the meaning of "fortepiano"?
"loud-soft"
10. Who designed the Viennese fortepiano?
Johann Andreas Stein