The Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments with Composer Associations
The Cobbe Collection
of keyboard instruments with composer associations

Photo: Chris Hurst © Cobbe Collection Trust

SQUARE PIANOFORTE by Johannes Zumpe and Gabriel Buntebart,
London, 1777-1778


detail of Johann Christian Bach's
signature on the soundboard
Photo: David Hunt © Cobbe Collection Trust

The soundboard is autographed by Johann Christian Bach, who is believed to have brought this instrument to Saint Germain-en-Laye in France in August 1778 when visiting the Duc de Noailles with Mozart. It survived in a family house in a village nearby.

 

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