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The First Piano Music

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Lodovico Giustini , a Florentine composer, wrote the first published music for the fortepiano.
Melvyn Tan plays a selection of his 1732 sonatas, dedicated to the Portuguese infante Don Antonio.
Sonatas: No 1 in G minor; No 3 in F; No 10 in F minor; No 7 in G

Contributors

Unknown:
Lodovico Giustini
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Melvyn Tan
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Don Antonio.
Source: Radio Times

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