Galassia Pianoforte. Una storia di compositori, interpreti e costruttori

The conviction that the piano is an instrument of anoth er time with little future is widespread, and yet, in our era, it remains at the centre of musical life, public and private, in the East and the West, with repertoires that reinvent themselves and amplify themselves and with markets that develop and adapt to the external changes of technology and society. Enzo Beacco reinterprets the history of the most well-known instrument, from the harpsichord and the fortepiano to the object that it istoday, as a marvelous intersection of technical, artistic, and commercial invention, showing us how its twilight is further away than ever. It has changed structure, materials, environments: its “fluidity” – which adapts to the sensitivity of the interpreter and who listens to it – transforms it from mechanical object to biological organism capable of transformation and adaptation. While we meet piano makers, authors, and interpreters, we realise that most likely the piano is immortal.