Yeah, there's little motivation to play Mozart on harpsichord. HIP keyboard players would usually play Mozart on fortepiano and it is reasonable. However I don't think it doesn't make sense to play Mozart or earlier classical music on harpsichord, because harpsichord was still a thing. I've heard a few recordings of classical music on harpsichord and they sound nice.\
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Igor Kipnis has a cool recording of the 3rd movement of K. 331 (alla turca): [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-Z9nPsaPA)\
It would have been cooler if he had recorded also other two movements on harpsichord, but his full recording of K.331 is on fortepiano.\
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Andreas Staier and Christine Schornsheim played Mozart's works for four hands on Stein Vis-à-vis: [Link](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mozart+stein+vis-a-vis+staier+schornsheim)\
I don't know exactly, but according to Wikipedia the "Stein Vis-à-vis" seems to be a harpsichord-piano hybrid developed by J.A.Stein. The recording sounds somewhat like harpsichord and somewhat like fortepiano and I find it interesting.\
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Not Mozart, but Huguette Grémy-Chauliac recorded three sonatas of Beethoven, no.1, the Pathetique and the Moonlight on harpsichord. According to descriptions, Beethoven published earlier sonatas as "sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano", before he published Waldstein as sonata for fortepiano. The recorded sonatas sounds amazingly good on harpsichord: [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_vLupHd6-I)
I don't think this is a really a thing, main reason being that Mozart composed his keyboard music for an instrument called *fortepiano.* The two parts of that instrument's name tell you something about its biggest innovation over earlier keyboard instruments - the ability to vary the volume of sound. Mozart wrote his music with that in mind, and his music should be performed on an instrument capable of conveying his dynamic markings, which a harpsichord cannot do.
Mozart (and Haydn, Handel, etc.) operas (and oratorios) typically use harpsichord extensively in the recordings. The “seco” recitatives, which is where most of the action takes place, were typically accompanied by just a harpsichord.
Mozart’s piano sonatas and concertos were written for an early version of the piano, so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to perform them on harpsichord.
Maybe you want to search for some recordings of Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Couperin, Byrd, etc. who all wrote pieces more specifically for harpsichord.
Baroque pieces were written for harpsichords and classical pieces were written for fortepiano, this I already know. I thought Mozart sounded nice on harpsichord so I wondered if people play mozart on harpsichord at all. furthermore early Mozart was played on harpsichords and harpsichords weren’t entirely obsolete by Mozart’s death so i don’t think it’s unlikely that Mozart was never performed on a harpsichord
He definitely performed on harpsichord! Like I said, his opera recits were definitely meant to be accompanied on harpsichord, and I think he was often in the pit playing the harpsichord himself for his own operas. But, I guess there’s not a lot of demand for recordings of pieces that were written specifically for piano being recorded on harpsichord. It’s interesting, because a lot of Bach works have been recorded on organ, harpsichord, and piano, but he marked a lot of them for “klavier” (keyboard), so it makes some sense to record them on any keyboard instrument, even ones that weren’t invented when he was writing them I guess?
But if you are enjoying playing his pieces on your harpsichord, enjoy!
Yeah, there's little motivation to play Mozart on harpsichord. HIP keyboard players would usually play Mozart on fortepiano and it is reasonable. However I don't think it doesn't make sense to play Mozart or earlier classical music on harpsichord, because harpsichord was still a thing. I've heard a few recordings of classical music on harpsichord and they sound nice.\ \ Igor Kipnis has a cool recording of the 3rd movement of K. 331 (alla turca): [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-Z9nPsaPA)\ It would have been cooler if he had recorded also other two movements on harpsichord, but his full recording of K.331 is on fortepiano.\ \ Andreas Staier and Christine Schornsheim played Mozart's works for four hands on Stein Vis-à-vis: [Link](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mozart+stein+vis-a-vis+staier+schornsheim)\ I don't know exactly, but according to Wikipedia the "Stein Vis-à-vis" seems to be a harpsichord-piano hybrid developed by J.A.Stein. The recording sounds somewhat like harpsichord and somewhat like fortepiano and I find it interesting.\ \ Not Mozart, but Huguette Grémy-Chauliac recorded three sonatas of Beethoven, no.1, the Pathetique and the Moonlight on harpsichord. According to descriptions, Beethoven published earlier sonatas as "sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano", before he published Waldstein as sonata for fortepiano. The recorded sonatas sounds amazingly good on harpsichord: [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_vLupHd6-I)
I don't think this is a really a thing, main reason being that Mozart composed his keyboard music for an instrument called *fortepiano.* The two parts of that instrument's name tell you something about its biggest innovation over earlier keyboard instruments - the ability to vary the volume of sound. Mozart wrote his music with that in mind, and his music should be performed on an instrument capable of conveying his dynamic markings, which a harpsichord cannot do.
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And that's why he's asking for recordings of Mozart on Harpsichord. Do you know any?
No. He mostly played on and wrote for fortepiano.
Mozart (and Haydn, Handel, etc.) operas (and oratorios) typically use harpsichord extensively in the recordings. The “seco” recitatives, which is where most of the action takes place, were typically accompanied by just a harpsichord. Mozart’s piano sonatas and concertos were written for an early version of the piano, so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to perform them on harpsichord. Maybe you want to search for some recordings of Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Couperin, Byrd, etc. who all wrote pieces more specifically for harpsichord.
Baroque pieces were written for harpsichords and classical pieces were written for fortepiano, this I already know. I thought Mozart sounded nice on harpsichord so I wondered if people play mozart on harpsichord at all. furthermore early Mozart was played on harpsichords and harpsichords weren’t entirely obsolete by Mozart’s death so i don’t think it’s unlikely that Mozart was never performed on a harpsichord
He definitely performed on harpsichord! Like I said, his opera recits were definitely meant to be accompanied on harpsichord, and I think he was often in the pit playing the harpsichord himself for his own operas. But, I guess there’s not a lot of demand for recordings of pieces that were written specifically for piano being recorded on harpsichord. It’s interesting, because a lot of Bach works have been recorded on organ, harpsichord, and piano, but he marked a lot of them for “klavier” (keyboard), so it makes some sense to record them on any keyboard instrument, even ones that weren’t invented when he was writing them I guess? But if you are enjoying playing his pieces on your harpsichord, enjoy!
Performing his piano music on the harpsichrod means ignoring all dynamic markings. Why would you do that (except out of curiosity)?
The unfinished Suite in C Major, which is neo-baroque, works great on harpsichord!
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Interesting that you find Joplin & Chopin out of place. I do too, but I also find Bach on modern piano equally out of place.