Dongsok Shin performs the Sonata in d minor, K.9 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) on the earliest known surviving piano, made by the instrument’s inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731), in Florence, 1720. Scarlatti’s keyboard compositions were performed on both the harpsichord and the early piano.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Produced and Directed by Christopher Noey
Edited by Kate Farrell
Camera by Kelly Richardson and Jessica Glass
Lighting by Ned Hallick
Sound Recording and Post-Production Audio by David Raymond
Production Coordinator: Stephanie Wuertz
Production Assistants: Sarah Cowan, Maureen Coyle
Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments
J. Kenneth Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator-in-Charge
Jayson Kerr Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator
E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Associate Curator
Susana Caldeira, Assistant Conservator
Dongsok Shin, keyboard technician
Joseph Peknik III, Principal Technician
Pamela Summey, Programs Coordinator
Marian Eines, Associate for Administration
