Clavecin instrument (comparation with other instrument)

A presentation about musical instruments

1. What is the musical instrument, that if it didn’t exist, music wasn’t the same today?? .

2. Harpsichord ( clavecin )

3. Bartolomeo Cristofori Born in Italy - year 1655 Musical instruments inventator His biggest invention: the piano

4. Comparation The piano The harpsichord

5. Differences between piano and harpsichord 1. the harpsichord has the keys black and white when the piano has them white and black 2. the harpsichord doesn’t have pedals

6. Classical music composers who played the harpsichord 1. Johann Sebastian Bach 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3. Joseph Haydn 4. Georg Friedrich Handel