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04/01/2000

A19 First shooting for the cultural history of keyboard instruments

Cameraman Björn Detre in front of the golden harpsichord by Michele Todini at the Metropolitan Museum New York.

It requires a film to convey the bimedial artistic statement of instruments. Analogous to an opera whose libretto is only known, but not the music or its presentation on stage, only half of the information is accessible. Todini presented his instrument in a specially constructed theater near Piazza Navona in Rome. The presentation was about Ovid's story of Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea. It is representative for a number of instruments directly related to the opera.