"Clavichord" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... graceful of them: they'd break talk off and afford— She to bite her mask's black velvet, he to finger on his sword, While you sat and played Toccatas, stately at the clavichord! ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... error of estimating genius with a yard-stick, and asked where were his "Don Juan" and his "Freischuetz?" His enthusiasm for Schubert, Chopin, and especially for Bach, finds frequent expression. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavichord" he declares is his "grammar, and the best of all grammars. The fugues I have analyzed successively to the minutest details; the advantage resulting from this is great, and has a morally bracing effect on the whole system, for Bach was a man through and through; in him there ...
— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck
... musicians of the Middle Ages (who had been classed with jugglers and card sharps) had formed the first separate Guild of Musicians in the year 1288, the little monochord was developed into something which we can recognise as the direct ancestor of our modern Steinway. From Austria the "clavichord" as it was usually called in those days (because it had "craves" or keys) went to Italy. There it was perfected into the "spinet" which was so called after the inventor, Giovanni Spinetti of Venice. At last during the eighteenth century, some time between 1709 and 1720, Bartolomeo Cristofori ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon |
