Of course, in 1790 Mozart wouldn't have had to compete with car horns. Why don't modern classical pianists ever try playing nineteenth- and twentieth-century works on older instruments? After all, to play Xenakis on a fortepiano or Brahms on a harpsichord wouldn't be any more anachronistic than playing Bach on a modern piano. It can't be simply that the keyboard range is too small on older instruments. On the other hand, Keith Jarrett played the clavichord on the Book of Ways:
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