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- Title
The Verschneider Piano at the Riemenschneider Bach Institute.
- Authors
LIBIN, LAURENCE
- Abstract
The Riemenschneider Bach Institute at Baldwin Wallace University possesses a square piano dated 1792, made by the Verschneider firm, organ builders of Puttelange-aux-Lacs, Moselle. The five-octave piano, of unknown provenance but modeled after English-style prototypes, is the oldest extant Verschneider product and their only known piano, evidently fourth in a series of otherwise lost instruments. Undistinguished in workmanship and repeatedly altered, in the mid-twentieth century by Marcel Asseman in Paris, the piano nevertheless displays interesting features indicative of stressful conditions in provincial Revolutionary France.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); BALDWIN Wallace University; PIANO; ORGAN builders; ORGANS (Musical instruments); WORKMANSHIP
- Publication
Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, 2022, Vol 53, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0005-3600
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bach.2022.0002