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Mozart’s music as he would have known it

Mozart

Complete Piano Sonatas Robert Levin (fortepiano)

 ECM ECM 2710-16 377:11 mins (7 discs)

Robert Levin, fortepianist, professor emeritus at Harvard and much more besides, is one of few people who have ever been granted access to play Mozart’s own fortepiano in Salzburg. Thought to have been made by the Walter firm around 1782, this was the instrument on which Mozart would have created and performed most of his Viennese-period piano music. Despite its age, it

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