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Background: However unusual or even bizzarre it may seem, the idea of a piano endowed with a pedalboard similar to that of an organ actually has a long history behind it. Its antecedents are the clavichord and the harpsichord with single or double keyboard, which also often had a pedalboard attached.

Johann Sebastian Bach owned a clavichord with two keyboards and pedalboard for which he composed the Trio Sonata BWV 525-530, the Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 and other works. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart owned a fortepiano with independent pedals, built expressly for him in 1785 by Anton Walter. The instrument Robert Schumann refers to as a pedalflügel (piano with pedalboard) first entered his home in Dresden in 1845. He was also able to convince F.

Mendelssohn Bartholdy to inaugurate a class especially for the pedalflügel in the Conservatorium of Leipzig.

There are various systems with which a pedalboard was attached to the piano: the most common was that of a pedalboard fastened under the piano that activated its mechanics-keyboard; another System, though less frequent, was that of placing two independent pianos (each with its separate mechanics and strings).

At the end of this last century the piano-maker Luigi Borgato realized a new instrument, the "DOPPIO BORGATO": a double piano of extensive form, joining a concert-grand together with a second piano activated by a pedalboard comprised of 37 pedals, thus augmenting the expressive qualities of its 18th century predecessors.

The DOPPIO BORGATO opens up a new page for the musical world, this particular instrument offering new possibilities to both composers and interpreters.

CATALOGUE NR: BORGATO072010
RECORD LABEL: Stradivarius
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 03-Oct-2011

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Doppio Borgato
TRACKS: Funf Stucke fur Flotenuhr WoO33 (Beethoven). Studien fur den Pedalfugel Opus 56 (Schumann). Prelude fugue & variation Opus 18 (Franck). Ich ruf zu dir Herr Jesu Christ BWV639. Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland BWV659 (JS Bach).
ARTISTS: Mirco Bruson      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Concert Grand Piano with Pedalboard

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