Piano Concerto No. 4 (Mozart)
Piano Concerto No. 4 may refer to: * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Mozart) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Prokofiev) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rachmaninoff) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Ries) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rorem) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rubinstein) * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Saint-Saëns) The Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44 was composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1875. It was premièred on October 31, 1875, at the Théâtre du Châtelet of Paris, with the composer as the soloist. The concerto is dedicated to Anton Door, a ... * Piano Concerto No. 4 (Villa-Lobos) {{disambiguation ...
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The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ...
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