{"id":2350,"date":"2010-08-10T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2010-08-30T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:34:43","slug":"piano-played-by-mozart-discovered-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/piano-played-by-mozart-discovered-in-germany-2350\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano Played by Mozart Discovered in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An early piano believed to have been played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has surfaced in Germany and could be worth millions of euros, a radio station reported. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public broadcaster SWR said the instrument was built in 1775 and acquired in the 1980s by piano manufacturer Martin Becker in the southern German city of Baden-Baden from an antiques dealer in Strasbourg, eastern France. When Becker decided to auction off the fortepiano, a music historian noticed the offer and &#8220;had a hunch that it could be the same long-lost instrument that Mozart played whenever he was in Strasbourg,&#8221; SWR said. &#8220;I had the idea to offer it on (online auction site) eBay and maybe get between 30,000 and 40,000 euros for it,&#8221; Becker told the radio station. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/mozart-piano.jpg\" title=\"Mozart piano\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/>A historic oil painting in Vienna shows the composer Joseph Haydn, a Mozart contemporary, playing what may be the same instrument. The fortepiano, built by Christian Baumann, is one of eight known examples. Mozart was known to be a fan of Baumann&#8217;s work, SWR said. SWR said auction house Christie&#8217;s confirmed the piano&#8217;s provenance in 2003, but a company spokesman told AFP that its US-based musical instrument specialists had never examined it. Experts said the piano could be worth millions if its illustrious pedigree is established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early piano believed to have been played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has surfaced in Germany and could be worth millions of euros, a radio station reported. 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