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Fortepiano by Paul McNulty after Walter & Sohn, c. 1805 A fortepiano [ˌfɔrteˈpjaːno] is an early piano.In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century.
David Walter Foster OC OBC (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian record producer, film composer, and music executive.He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. [1] [2] Foster's career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s [3] before focusing largely on composing and production.
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David Foster, 'Love Theme From "St. Elmo’s Fire" ' (1985) Foster’s theme from the Brat Pack classic was the rare instrumental track to crash the pop Top 20 in the 1980s.
He transmitted to later builders the crucial ideas of Bartolomeo Cristofori (the inventor of the piano), ensuring their survival, and also invented the forerunner of the damper pedal. Evidence from the Universal-Lexicon of Johann Heinrich Zedler indicates that Silbermann first built a piano in 1732, only a year after Cristofori's death. [ 5 ]
Americus built both harpsichords and pianofortes. He is described by composer, musician and chronicler Charles Burney in Rees's Cyclopaedia for 1772 as "a harpsichord maker of second rank, who constructed several pianofortes, and improved the mechanism in some particulars, but the tone, with all the delicacy of Schroeter's (see below) touch, lost the spirit of the harpsichord and gained ...
David Foster, composer-producer-songwriter extraordinaire, never stops. “I am a workaholic,” he confesses, “and I move around a lot.” Foster and his wife, singer-actress Katharine McPhee ...
The 16-time Grammy Award-winning artist shares three daughters with second wife Rebecca Dyer: Sara, born February 1981; Erin, born August 1982 and Jordan, born September 1986.(David and Dyer were ...