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Wow.

Hostile to anything that challenges the modern orthodoxy, are we? ;-) Actually, a major problem with trying to resurrect Mozartean piano technique, or at least so it seems to me, is that the pianoforte of Mozart's day, not overstrung, with a wood frame and leather covered hammers, and without the modern mechanism developed by Erard and others, was an entirely different instrument.

What we now consider the piano is a late nineteenth century instrument that began to evolve towards its current form in the early to mid-19th century, long after Mozart died (and shortly after Beethoven died). And much as we might hate to admit it, the instrument continues to evolve, including with modern electronics (shudder!).

Of course, Christina Kolb, the pianist of the NY Times article, demonstrates on an early 19th century pianoforte, or a modern replica thereof. I don't doubt such an instrument required a very different technique, though I haven't played one myself.


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