Rusch, Elizabeth The
Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman PICTURE BOOK
Atheneum Books, 2017. $17.99 Content: G.
Cristofori is a talented instrument maker. Prince Ferdinando of Medici hires Cristofori
and pays him well to provide instruments for his Italian court. Cristofori wanted to make an instrument that
the musician could control the volume of the notes being played. The harpsichord was too loud and the
clavichord was too soft, so he invented the pianoforte. The pianoforte is the instrument many famous
classical musicians used to write their music.
This book is an interesting and in depth look at how the piano was
invented. There isn’t a lot about
Cristofori as a person, but the story is more about his invention and the way it
impacted the world. The illustrations
are bright and well done and on most of the pages there are different terms for
the sounds: crescendo, fortissimo, etc. Although this book is very well done, I’m not
sure there is a big audience for this topic, except maybe in music class.
EL (K-3),EL, MS – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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