Cristiano Holtz – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I (2021)
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Which “Clavier” did Bach have in mind? Apart from a “grand clavessin” by Michael Mietke, which he probably had at his disposal at the court in C”othen, there is evidence that he knew instruments by Gottfried Silbermann. A harpsichord with a 16′ stop by Johann Heinrich Harrass (today in the Berlin Musikinstrumenten-Museum) is also assumed to have been in Bach’s possession. A large instrument similar to this supposed “Bach harpsichord” was built by Zacharias Hildebrandt, who was closely associated with the composer during his Leipzig years.
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