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Also Known As Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori
Born May 4, 1655 • Padua • Italy
Died January 27, 1731 (aged 75) • Florence • Italy

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German piano craftsman
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American piano maker
Sébastien Érard
French musical instrument maker
Elliott Carter
American composer
Ignace Joseph Pleyel, watercolour by an unknown artist
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Austrian-French composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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American inventor
Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer
Theobald Boehm
German woodwind maker
Sax, lithograph by Auguste Bry after a portrait by Charles Baugniet, 1844
Adolphe Sax
Belgian inventor
John Broadwood
British piano maker
Johann Christoph Zumpe
German-born piano maker
David Tannenberg
American organ maker
Hans Ruckers, the Elder
Flemish instrument maker
Ignaz Bösendorfer
Austrian piano craftsman
Gottfried Silbermann
German instrument manufacturer
Henri Herz
Austrian musician
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German musician
Robert Hope-Jones
British-American organ maker
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Italian violin maker [1698-1745]