Beethoven's French Piano av Tom Beghin

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Using a replica of Beethoven¿s Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven¿s work. In 1803 Beethoven acquired a French piano from the Erard Frères workshop in Paris.¿The composer was ¿so enchanted with it,¿ one visitor reported, ¿that he regards all the pianos made here as rubbish by comparison.¿¿While Beethoven loved its sound, the touch of the French keyboard was much heavier than that of the Viennese pianos he had been used to.¿Hoping to overcome this drawback, he commissioned a local technician to undertake a series of revisions, with ultimately disappointing results. Beethoven set aside the Erard piano for good in 1810. ¿Beethoven¿s French Piano returns the reader to this period of Beethoven¿s enthusiasm for all things French.¿What traces of the Erard¿s presence can be found in piano sonatas like his ¿Waldstein¿ and ¿Appassionata¿?¿To answer this question, Tom Beghin worked with a team of historians and musicians