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Lodovico Giustini: 12 Sonate da cimbalo di pianoforte e genius detto volgarmenti di martelletti, Op. 1, “Sonata No. 1 snare G minor” (Andrea Coen, fortepiano)

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Name	Born	Died	Information
Gaalman, Alphonsus (Alphons) Josephus Bernardus more...	18 Feb. 1914 Henglo, The Netherlands	4 Mar. 1986	Dutch organist, pianist, composer and conductor
Gabriel, Mary Ann Virginia	1825 England	1877	pianist and composer of operettas, cantatas, piano pieces and songs
Gabriel Marie, Jean (born Jean Marie Prosper Gabriel) more...	8 Jan. 1852 Paris, France	29 Aug. 1928 Puigcerdà, Girona, Spain	father of the composer Jean Gabriel-Marie (see below), Gabriel Marie's works include the immensely popular La Cinquantaine ("The Golden Wedding", 1887) for cello and piano, for octet, and various other arrangements (entry promoted by Ivor Solomons)
Gabriel-Marie, Jean (or Jean Gabriel Marie) more...	1907	1970	composer, son of the French composer Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (see above), director of the Institut Gabriel-Marie in Marseille
Gabrieli (or Gabrielli), Andrea [Andrea di Cannaregio] more...	c.1510	late 1586 Venice, Italy	Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat more famous Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers, and was extremely influential in spreading the Venetian style in Italy as well as in Germany
Gab • The Importance of the Piano The pianoforte, more commonly called the piano, became, by the last quarter of the eighteenth century, a leading instrument of Western art music, for both professionals and amateurs. The modern piano is a highly versatile instrument capable of playing almost anything an orchestra can play. It can sustain pitches in a lyrical fashion, creating all musical styles and moods, with enough volume to be heard through almost any musical ensemble. Broadly defined as a stringed keyboard instrument with a hammer action (as opposed to the jack and quill action of the harpsichord) capable of gradations of soft and loud, the piano became the central instrument of music pedagogy and amateur study. By the end of the nineteenth century, no middle-class household of any stature in Europe or North America was without one. Almost every major Western composer from Mozart onward has played it, many as virtuosi, and the piano repertory—whether solo, chamber, or with orchestra—is at the heart of Western classical professional performance. Cristofori and the First Pianofortes The quiet nature of the piano’s birth around 1700, therefore, comes as something of a surprise. The first true piano was invented almost entirely by one man—Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Pa