In the Mozart Museum in Salzburg, there's a piano by Anton Walter of Vienna. It has two fewer octaves than a modern piano, a device operated by the player's knee to 'dampen' the sound, and a knob ...
Mozart had a great run of successes in his final years - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the Clarinet Quintet in A, three of his 41 symphonies; Cosí fan Tutte, three piano trios, the Coronation piano ...
Barenboim's performances of Beethoven's Sonatas became legendary and he was one of the first musicians in the modern era to revive the idea of performing Mozart’s piano concertos without a conductor, ...