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KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS FROM THE BAROQUE TO THE ROMANTIC ERA  
   
   
 


keyboard instruments from the historical musical instrument collection
in the "Fruchtkasten," Stuttgart

     

Baroque era

(from left to right)
:

• Cembalo: France, from collection of Comte de Bricqueville, Versailles, c. 1688 (painting inside lid: the punishment of cupid)

• Cembalo: Friedrich Ring, Strasbourg, 1700

• Cembalo with chinoiserie decoration, P. Hellen, Bern, 1759

• harp: Metz, 1785

 
     

     
  from the Classical to the Romantic:
Empire Salon with original wall coverings, c. 1810-20

(from left to right:)


• Lyro-Guitar, French, c. 1800

• "Giraffe" piano, Christoph Ehrlich, Bamberg, c. 1820

• Hammerflügel, Vienna, c. 1820

     

       
   

Biedermeier era

 

• "Tafelklavier" (square piano), Schiedmayer & Sohn, Stuttgart, 1845

• portrait: Count Normann-Ehfenfels and his wife, c. 1853

• death mask of the composer Carl Maria von Weber

       

 

 
 
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