Duplex Piano – The Piano with Two Manuals

Date & Time

Tue, Jul 8, 2025, 19:30

Venue

Around 1920, the composer Emanuel Moór had the vision of building the piano of the future. His duplex piano with two manuals was born out of the spirit of the late Romantic period and offers even more tonal colours and a greater richness of sound. On an ordinary piano, one touch of the keys causes a hammer to strike the string. With the duplex piano, two hammers can be coupled: one keystroke then produces two tones simultaneously. This doubling of... Read full text

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Musicians

Mirijam Contzen	Violin
Hartmut Rohde	Viola
David Stromberg	Cello
Florian Uhlig	Duplex Piano

Program

Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67	Dmitri Shostakovich
Prélude op. 71/1	Emánuel Moór
Prélude cis-moll op. 3/2	Sergei Rachmaninoff
Polowetzer Tänze / aus der Oper »Fürst Igor« (Bearbeitung für Klavierquartett von Vladimir Genin)	Alexander Borodin
Pictures at an Exhibition / Adaptation for Piano Quartet by James Guthrie	Modest Mussorgski

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