Originally posted by verismissimo
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Whilst "what Rameau, Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy... wanted - was a Steinway concert grand" is self-evidently nonsense (Debussy could have had one anyway and Grieg certainly possessed one), I remain unconvinced that piano composers never took any interest in the development of the instrument's design and capabilities; Alkan's Op. 39 Douze Études dans les Tons Mineurs played on the kinds of instrument with which has was familiar at the time of writing might arguably illustrate a case in point...
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