Group 4

A sheet
music to
be played
on piano.
Piano Music

Bartolomeo Cristofori
Early 18th century
Padua, Italy
A musical instrument played using
a keyboard.
Widely used in classical and jazz music.
One of the world's most familiar musical
instruments.
Piano

usually has a
protective
wooden case
surrounding
the soundboard
and metal
strings
a row of black
and white keys
(52 white keys
and 36 black
keys).
Piano

Bartolomeo Cristofori
de Francesco
employed
by Ferdinando de
Medici, Grand Prince
of Tuscany, as the
Keeper of the
Instruments
an expert harpsichord
maker
Invented the Pianoforte
Bartolomeo Cristofori

was a Polish composer
and virtuoso pianist of the
Romantic era.
renown worldwide as one of
the leading musicians of his
era.
he completed his musical
education and composed
many of his works in
Warsaw before leaving
Poland.
Frederic Chopin

Revolutionary Etude -or the tude on the
Bombardment of Warsaw, is a solo piano work
by Frederic Chopin written circa 1831, and the last in
his first set, Etudes Op. 10, dedicated " son ami Franz
Liszt" ("to his friend Franz Liszt").
Minute Waltz- a piano waltz composed by Frederic
Chopin. It is dedicated to the Countess Delfina
Potocka.
His Works

was a 19th-century
Hungarian composer,
virtuoso pianist,
conductor, teacher and
Franciscan tertiary.
for his virtuosic skill as a
pianist.
most technically advanced
pianist of his age
greatest pianist of all time.

Franz Liszt
Liszt was also a well-known and influential
composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a
benefactor to other composers, including Richard
Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Sans, Edvard
Grieg and Alexander Borodin.
he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries
and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends.
most notable contributions were the invention of
the symphonic poem.
important role in popularizing a wide array of music
by transcribing it for piano.

His Works
Annes de Plerinage (French for Years of
Pilgrimage) refers to Goethe's famous novel of self-
realization, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and
especially its sequel Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman
Years
Liebestrume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of
three solo piano works by Franz Liszt, published in
1850.