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By Brilliant Classics Like Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so many others, Vanhal became the composer and the man we know him as now when he moved to Vienna. He was 22 years old when he settled there in 1761, and soon adopted a new identity, not as the Czech-born Jan Křtitel Vaňhal but as the […]
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The Baroque Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument
September 12th, 2022 
Awake Goy Over a period of some three centuries there are plenty of references to gut-stringed instruments that resemble the harpsichord and imitate the delicate soft timbre of the lute (including its lower-sounding variants, the theorbo and archlute) or the harp, but little concrete information. Not a single such instrument has survived, nor is any contemporary depiction […]
