One keyboard, four hands, intermingled. Famously Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of Bach, and young Mozart treasured their encounter at the harpsichord together. Later the form of Four-Hand Piano arrangements of the latest symphonies swept the 19th-century Europe’s musical and literary culture with contested popularity. Grand symphonies in private sphere, this intimate yet powerful musical pursuit stirred the imagination of many Romantic novelists from Charles Dickens to Thomas Mann, even philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche sat at the piano and composed ...

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