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Perhaps the most celebrated composers who wrote for the harpsichord were Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), who composed numerous suites for harpsichord, and especially J. S. Bach (1685–1750), whose solo works (for instance, The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.
The Guinness Harp magazine, 'the most harmonious of all the musical instruments of the string-kind', Vol. 7, Christmas 1964, p. 7. The Financial Times, 'Men and Matters', 23 September 1965. The Evening Herald, 'Stradivarius of the harpsichord', 27 September 1965. Hibernia, 'Cathail (sic) Gannon's harpsichords', January 1968, p. 27.
Works for harpsichord in the 21st century include Northern Irish composer Alan Mills's Two Cubist Inventions (2000 / 2013), [9] Slovak composer Peter Machajdík's "Empty Cage" for solo harpsichord and "Déjà vu" for harpsichord and strings [10] and French composer and French composer Karol Beffa's Suite (2008), Sarabande et Doubles (2015) and ...
The 1904 Rolls-Royce 10 hp Two-Seater is currently listed on the Guinness World Records as the most expensive veteran car to be sold, at the price of US$7,254,290 (equivalent to $10,660,000 in 2023), on a Bonhams auction held at Olympia in London on December 3, 2007. [3]
The piano that John Lennon used to compose the song “Imagine” was sold for $2.1 million in October 2000 to singer George Michael. The Steinway Model Z upright piano was built in Hamburg ...
The harpsichord is typical of the early and ornate work of Jacob Kirckman, with an organ case that matches the marquetry and elaborate figured veneer of the harpsichord. The harpsichord stop levers are laid out in the conventional fashion on either side of the name-board, with the organ stops being placed at either side of the keyboards with a ...
As in all harpsichords, the strings in the oval spinet are plucked by plectra suspended in jacks, thin vertical strips of wood. Each jack rises from the far end of its key, passes through a guiding register in the soundboard, and terminates adjacent to its assigned string, close enough for the bit of quill held by the jack - the plectrum - to pluck the string.
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